Inpatient Services for people with Intellectual Disabilities -

Specialist Assessment and Treatment Services (SATs) & Adolescent Unit,

Brooklands Hospital, Marston Green, Birmingham

Clinical Psychologist - 7 / 8a Development Post

Full-time, permanent

We are recruiting a Clinical Psychologist to join the team working within inpatient services for people with Intellectual Disabilities at Brooklands Hospital.

The post is split across the Specialist Assessment and Treatment service for adults and the Adolescent Inpatient Service.

Psychologists within Intellectual Disability services are fully integrated within collaborative multi-disciplinary teams, whilst also working closely with other psychologists on service development projects, to deliver training and develop groups and other interventions. The contribution of psychological services is highly valued within the teams and service management, and the team are often involved in developing innovative solutions to service needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have opportunity to use the whole range of their psychological skills and experience. This will include clinical input in the form of assessments, individual and group therapies, team formulation, reflective practice and supporting other staff to undertake psychological interventions. He/she will also be involved in providing training and supervision to others and contributing to and leading on service development projects and undertaking audit and research.

About us

The SATS and CAMHS Psychological Services team are part of a wider Psychological Services team on the Brooklands site. The psychology department is a well-established and supportive service and successful applicants will receive support to further develop their skills and knowledge, through good quality supervision and training opportunities. The team have a range of clinical interests and expertise in a variety of different therapeutic models including CBT, DBT and Compassion Focussed approaches.

Positive Behavioural Support is a major part of our treatment philosophy. The service ethos is to ensure that effective, evidence based interventions are provided to people who present considerable risk to themselves or others, to ensure that they can return to a less restrictive environment in the community as soon as possible.

The service has strong links with local clinical psychology training courses and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical psychologists, supervision for research, and teaching on the local courses. There are also strong links with Community Learning Disability and Intensive Support teams across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have post qualification experience of working with adults and/or young people with Intellectual Disabilities in community or inpatient settings.

For full details of the role, please see the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications.

If you do not yet meet the criteria for the band 8a role, we will also support applications from candidates that meet the criteria for the band 7 role and job description (please see additional documents on NHS Jobs).

In these instances, the successful candidate would be appointed to a Development Post role at band 7 and provided opportunities and support to progress to the band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme. It is expected that this process will be achievable within a period of up to two years, although timescales may vary between different staff members in Development Posts. In the event that elements of the expected competencies to progress to 8a are not fully met, the role will remain as a band 7.

This will be further discussed as part of the interview and recruitment process as appropriate. Applications from newly qualified/soon to qualify clinicians would therefore be welcomed.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Dr Claire David, Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Dr Danielle Dickinson, Principal Clinical Psychologist, on 0121 329 4901 or email claire.david@covwarkpt.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology or its equivalent as approved by the HCPC
• Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with a range of clients presenting with a range of clinical severity.
• Experience of working with individuals with a learning disability.
• Experience of supervision of others.
• Experience of working in an inpatient setting.
• Post-graduate experience / training and skills in supervision including supervision of doctoral trainees.

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of applying theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapeutic approaches to this client group.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Knowledge of research / audit methodology relevant to the post.

Employer details

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Address

Brooklands Hospital

Coleshill Road

Marston Green, Birmingham

B37 7HH

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