Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a permanent full-time Band 7/Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in ECMHTOA Walsall

This post provides the perfect opportunity to join a thriving and forward-thinking psychology team within a newly established Older Adult Mental Health Division with opportunities to broaden experiences as we embark upon a number of exciting transformational projects. There are opportunities to be creative, innovative and to provide supervision, training, reflective practice, and training to multi-disciplinary teams in addition to individual and group works with clients.

The Psychology Leadership team is committed to raising the profile and influence of psychology across the organisation, enabling other professionals and leaders to think psychologically and systemically to support and enhance the organisation, client care, and staff well-being.

We are happy to consider requests for Flexi-working arrangements and part-time working. We would also encourage and consider applications from those in their final year of training

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be working with clients who present with a wide range of complex mental health, clinical and social needs often presenting along with comorbid frailty and chronic physical health conditions. Examples of clinical presentations range from bereavement and trauma, psychosis, anxiety, depression, personality disorder, as well as people with dementia. The main clinical roles would include:

• The provision of bespoke specialist psychological assessments for individuals, carers, and families of service users, using complex psychological data from a variety of sources.
• Supporting and developing team formulations, facilitating regular complex case discussions, and supporting staff in creating and implementing psychologically informed, person-centered care plans.
• The provision of a range of psychological interventions for service users, and, where appropriate, for carers and families.
• Carrying out detailed neuropsychological assessments where indicated and helping the team with formulation to aid the management of behaviours that challenge.

Facilitating reflective practice sessions in the team and for the Older Adult Therapeutic Service (OATS)

About us

You will be joining a friendly, talented and diverse team of psychologists who are committed to the values of person-centred multi-disciplinary and compassionate care across all teams and areas of service provision. This includes In-patients services, community based services including Memory Assessment Services across the four Black Country geographical areas of Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley. We are an aspiring team who are driven to ensure that Older Adult Psychology provision reaches the highest possible standards of client care, so if you are ready to join us in this mission we would be delighted to hear from you and would welcome your application.

The post holders will be valued colleagues working within Multi-Disciplinary Teams comprising of Psychiatrists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Activity Coordinators, and Health Care Assistants. They will bring to the team a highly skilled approach that combines the best of evidence-based clinical, multi factorial assessment and formulation with integrative, client centred, therapeutic interventions, which are carefully adapted to match the different needs of the client group

Please access the following link to find out more about workingwith our Team of Psychologists via our 'Welcome to Psychology in The Black Country' video

https://youtu.be/f6HJ-gSdWvA

For further details, please contact Dr. Viba Pavan Kumar (Lead Psychologist OAMH Dudley/Walsall) viba.pavankumar@nhs.net 07341490421

Job description Job responsibilities

Clinical Duties including Provision of highly specialist psychological assessment of clients under the care of ECMHTOA Walsall presenting with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing. Risk assessments and Formulation of plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions including challenging behaviour based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice and negotiating the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.

Supervisory/Professional Responsibility

Clinical supervision of Trainee Applied Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists. If appointed at 8A, Clinical supervision of Band 7 Applied Psychologists working within immediate area, under the guidance of Lead Applied Psychologist

Multi-Disciplinary Training and Development

Provision ofhighly specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other direct care staff in MDT, clinical supervision to other direct care staff in MDT,Devising and delivering training to other staff in MDT

Service and Organisational Development

Planning and mapping interventions with members of the MDT to determine best treatments for groups of clients. Taking an active role in MDT delivery of CQUIN and QIP projects, NICE benchmarking and compliance requirements as required within MDT

Service Redesign and Cultural Change

Service Evaluation and Research

Person Specification Essential Essential

• oPost-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• oPost-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• oKnowledge of evidence- based practice relevant to the role
• ofor 8A: Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• ohcpc registration

Desirable

• oRegistration with BPS
• oFurther qualifications relevant to the post

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