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This fixed term 24-month post is based in the Birmingham-wide specialist community service for people with learning disabilities. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Assistant Psychologist to support and enhance the provision of psychology services within our city-wide multidisciplinary Community Forensic Team (CFT). The CFT provides assessment and intervention for people with learning disabilities with a risk of offending.

Main duties of the job

This fixed term post will encourage the utilisation of a wide range of psychological skills within CFT, and the wider Learning Disabilities Service. The post holder will be an experienced Assistant Psychologist who ideally has previous experience of working in a forensic and/or learning disability setting and who ideally has access to a car, as the post involves working across the city. There are two Psychologists in CFT. The post holder will be based in the South Community Team Hub in Kings Norton, Birmingham, but CFT is a city-wide service. Therefore, there will be travelling across the city and occasionally outside of Birmingham.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This fixed term post will encourage the utilisation of a wide range of psychological skills within CFT, and the wider Learning Disabilities Service. The post holder will be an experienced Assistant Psychologist who ideally has previous experience of working in a forensic and/or learning disability setting and who ideally has access to a car, as the post involves working across the city. There are two Psychologists in CFT. The post holder will be based in the South Community Team Hub in Kings Norton, Birmingham, but CFT is a city-wide service. Therefore, there will be travelling across the city and occasionally outside of Birmingham.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• upper class second honours degree or higher in psychology
• eligibility for graduate membership of british psychological society

Desirable

• further post graduate training in relevant areas

Experience

Essential

• posr graduate work in LD/MH
• experience as an assisitant psychologist
• Experience of paid work in direct care provision

skills and knowledge

Essential

• high level communication skills
• able to communicate sensitive information
• understanding of mental health problems
• understanding of psychology applied to healthcare
• can apply psychological knowledge to a care content

Desirable

• experience of IT
• high standard of report writing

personal qualities

Essential

• self motivated
• positive,energetic,enthusiastic
• ability to manage under pressure
• able to work independantly and in a team

other job requirements

Essential

• able to accept supervision and use appropriately
• ability to reach scheduled appointments across city
• travel independently

Desirable

• ability to undertake planned out of hours work

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

greenfields

30 Brookfield Road

kings norton

B30 3QY

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