Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship – Secure Services

Job title:

Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship – Secure Services

Company:

NHS

Job description

0.6 Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologist, with Preceptorship (permanent)Following the departure of a valued team member, we have a vacancy within our team. If you are looking for a full-time role, please get in touch and we can see what we can do to make this happen. We are looking for someone who aligns with our values as a team and can also challenge us with compassion to be better. We encourage interested applicants to come and visit us to get a feel of the people, environment and dynamics.Within the team, we have a range of experienced staff including Practitioner Psychologists, an Art Therapist, Specialist Psychological Practitioner and Assistant Psychologists. We also support the development of trainee psychological practitioners, who bring with them innovation, ideas and invitations to improve our work.The Practitioner Psychologist vacancy at Reaside Clinic (male medium-secure unit) involves working alongside a range of professionals, providing safe, containing and connected psychological advice, care and therapy to help people understand themselves, their mental health and offending behaviour. Part of your role will be to work alongside staff to ensure the service user has the most effective, efficient and relationally connected and contained experience. Within Reaside Clinic we value and promote an ethos of service user involvement and co-production.Main duties of the jobThe Practitioner Psychologist role is broad, and we advocate for you to maintain all aspects of your professional role, including service development, research, therapeutic excellence, and leadership as appropriate. You will be encouraged to find your ‘shiny thing’ to help you feel value, and to promote the creativity and development of the department whilst contributing to the evidence base. We are looking for registered Practitioner Psychologists who are interested in working in secure environments with highly sensitive content. Whilst secure experience will be highly desirable, we encourage a breadth of experience to help bring new thinking to our services as the culture evolves.We are down to earth, authentic and open in our communication, bringing in the diverse experiences we hold within the team across gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, amongst other characteristics. Those who have worked here, have loved it and others have even returned!If you are ready for the next stage of your career progression, and able to compassionately challenge systems and staff to be better, hold integrity and also connect with the people around you, we hope you apply. The team at Reaside Clinic will make you feel welcome, connected and push you to excel in ways that you can envision and beyond, so that alongside service users we are proud of what we do.About usWelcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.Date posted07 February 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 7Salary£46,148 to £60,504 a year per annum, pro rataContractPermanentWorking patternFull-time, Part-timeReference number436-6960864Job locationsReaside ClinicBirminghamB45 9BEJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesFor further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesFor further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists

ExperienceEssential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.

Desirable

• Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
• oExperience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

KnowledgeEssential

• Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging.
• Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific ‘difficult to treat’ groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

PersonalEssential

• Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities
• Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives

OtherEssential

• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice

Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists

ExperienceEssential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.

Desirable

• Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
• oExperience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

KnowledgeEssential

• Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging.
• Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific ‘difficult to treat’ groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

PersonalEssential

• Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities
• Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives

OtherEssential

• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice

Expected salary

£46148 – 60504 per year

Location

Birmingham

Job date

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:23:40 GMT

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