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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health care to those people living in Birmingham and Solihull who are experiencing mental health problems.
The Trust serves a culturally and socially-diverse population of over a million spread over 172 square miles, and have an income of over £230 million, making our Trust one of the largest mental health foundation trusts in the country. they also provide services to people who live further afield because of some of the specialised services we provide.
The Trust has over 4000 dedicated staff who are continually working to help people get better and challenge the stigma associated with mental illness. The Trust operates from over 50 sites in a variety of settings, from community based mental health teams through to acute wards and day centres.
Band 8c Consultant Clinical/Forensic Psychologist - Ardenleigh
Closed for applications on: 8-May-2024 10:56
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-May-2024 10:56
Key details
Location
- Site
- Ardenleigh
- Address
- Kingsbury Road
- Town
- Birmingham
- Postcode
- B24 9SA
- Major / Minor Region
- Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (or secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Secure Care and Offender Health
- Interview date
- 20/05/2024
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
1.0 WTE CLINICAL/FORENSIC CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGIST
Band 8C (2 year Secondment / Fixed Term ) Ardenleigh
Ardenleigh consists of 30 bedded Women’s Blended Secure Service plus an outreach service and a 10 bedded medium secure FCAMHS service as well as a community Youth FIRST service. Inpatient service users are detained under the Mental Health Act and have a history of actual or potential harm to others. Intervention is offered across medium and low levels of security.
This post provides an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the leadership, management and delivery of psychological services within the Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) division. There are currently around 80 psychological staff within SCOH across a variety of inpatient and community services, a number of which are psychologically led. These additional contracts involve a training and consultation project with the Probation service and are part of the OPD pathway. Also, part of this pathway are a prison based personality disorder day treatment service for women (CAMEO) and intensive intervention and risk management service (PROSPER enhanced IIRMS) which offer services for both men and women. Also within the division are a forensic parenting assessment service, a consultation service with West Midlands police and a new Enhanced Reconnect pilot project working with high risk, high complex men and women leaving prison.
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The division’s psychological provision is multi-model and includes CBT; CAT; DBT; MBT and EMDR. Creative therapies are also embedded in services. The emphasis is to provide a high quality, inclusive psychological service for individuals with complex, often high risk and long term problems.
The post reflects a leadership role in the management of services and the strategic development of psychological service provision to offer a safe, effective, and valued clinical service with pathways to support recovery. The Consultant Psychologist role will involve leading and managing a team of psychological professionals and staff from other disciplines.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, robust, inclusive and innovative practitioner interested in developing services, as well as undertaking clinical and therapeutic work with people with complex presentations. A commitment to developing psychologically minded and well informed professional teams with a quality and inclusive focus is important. Collaborating with service users and their families and carers and including their perspectives across all clinical and service developments is expected. Good leadership and communication skills, a commitment to multi-disciplinary working, excellent time management and organisational skills are essential . Experience of secure inpatient environments, community pathways, working with those who have experienced adverse early life experiences all is highly desirable.
Working for our organisation
Welcome 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities of this post, please see the attached job description and person specification.
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Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.
Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The subscription will cost you £13 a year but the Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 1. It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical or Forensic psychology (or its equivalent), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of service users 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, with service users of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
- Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical/forensic psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Psychology Training Course criteria
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the multi-professional management of teams or services.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Formal post qualification training in relevant leadership and / or management skills.
- Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ service users.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership and management skills
- Advanced level knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Commitment to the involvement of service users and carers on the development and delivery of mental health and other care services.
- Ability to identify and to provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviour.
- 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.
- Commitment to working within a multicultural, inclusive framework
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lauren Richards
- Job title
- Lead Psychologist, Secure care and Offender Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 301 4504
- Additional information
The service is a region wide service so a degree of travel may be required.
There is an expectation that the successful candidate will also join the Trust on call rota.
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