Job summary
Are you looking for a new and innovative role providing clinical and strategic leadership for psychological practice in neonatal care? Then this could be the role for you!
We are a large, well established paediatric psychology team based at Birmingham Children's Hospital. We are collaborating with the Black Country and West Birmingham Local Maternity and Neonatal System to establish psychological practice across the four neonatal units in the Black Country.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate clinical psychologist who thrives in a fast-paced setting, engaging and working collaboratively with a wide range of other professionals. The post holder will support neonatal teams within the Black Country to deliver psychologically informed care to infants, families and staff, through a consultation model and indirect clinical activity (e.g. case consultation, reflective practice, supervision, debrief, teaching, training and quality improvement work).
The post holder will be based within the Health in Mind team, which is a multi-disciplinary team including clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists and a liaison psychiatrist. They will carry out their work across the four neonatal units in the Black Country and so the role will require an element of travel.
Please contact davy.evans@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Work across the Black Country and West Birmingham Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS), supporting the four neonatal teams to develop psychologically informed care to infants and their families.
- Liaise closely with the four teams to provide specialist advice and consultation on infants' and families' psychological care, including where there might be a breakdown in communication or relationship with clinical staff.
- Work with the LMNS to support co-ordinated and joined-up psychological practice across the system (e.g. facilitating cross-unit debriefs for staff from across the system when a family have accessed care in multiple units).
- Provide supervision for less experienced psychologists where appropriate including undergraduate and postgraduate psychology placement students, assistant and trainee psychologists, and qualified psychologists on the four neonatal units.
- Work alongside the West Midlands Perinatal Network to contribute to the delivery of psychological teaching, training and supervision for both psychological professionals and non-psychologist colleagues in the LMNS.
- Use research skills for the purposes of audit, policy development and research, joined with other practitioner psychologists in the West Midlands Perinatal Network.
- Contribute to service evaluation and service development in line with service objectives and with the aim of meeting national and local guidelines and targets.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
The Black Country Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) is part of the national Maternity Transformation Programme and work collaboratively to support the four Provider Trusts in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton to ensure transformation of maternity and neonatal services are achieved in order to improve services for our women and families.
We value openness, compassion, bravery, flexibility and curiosity in helping us meet the clinical and operational demands of this busy service. We are a large team and there are many opportunities for supervision, peer support and personal development.
An additional benefit of this role is the support available through the West Midlands Perinatal Network, who coordinate a network of other psychological professionals working in neonatal care across the West Midlands, facilitating peer supervision, professional development and education, and supporting the transformation of clinical practice in the region.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist eligible for chartered status
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Formal training in supervision
Desirable
- Post-qualification specialist training in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g. ACT, CFT, VIG, Infant Mental Health, CBT.
- Formal leadership/management training
- Formal Quality Improvement training
Other requirements
Essential
- Clean driving licence and flexible approach to work: Post holder will be required to travel between sites
- Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching and training health professionals in psychological concepts
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and consultation, with psychologists and other professional groups
- Experience designing, conducting and leading on research activities at a doctoral level including service related research and audits.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services and innovation and improvement
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working in a neonatal, paediatric, perinatal or critical care environment.
- Experience of contributing to strategic, clinical or organizational development and/or service development or service redesign
- Published articles/research (or contributor to)
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in highly complex groups (e.g. complex PTSD, dual diagnoses, etc) and an understanding of neurodiversity and implications for intervention and parental experience on the unit
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others.
- Ability to cope with workload pressure.
- Self-aware and emotionally resilient to be able to work within an emotive area.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of up-to-date skills and is clinically competent in current role
- Skills and knowledge of using Microsoft office for use with audits, research and presentations to wider audiences
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professionals and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Sound knowledge of key national issues/agendas relevant to the neonatal field
- Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of practice development and evidence based practice.
Personal skills/abilities and attributes
Essential
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Ability to work autonomously, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to adapt to changing needs of the service
- Excellent time management skills and highly developed organisational skills
- Able to demonstrate good multidisciplinary team working
- Able to work flexibly with a high degree of autonomy
- Diplomacy and ability to work collaboratively
- Self -motivated, able to set own priorities and meet changing priorities and deadlines
- Evidence of an enthusiasm for developing practice in current role
- Excellent role model and high standards of conduct and behaviour
- Positive and proactive approach to problem solving.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support parents, families and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Able to maintain professionals standards and objectivity under pressure
- Able to reflect on own performance
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns
- Good and appropriate use of formal and informal supervision
- Well organised and an effective team player
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist eligible for chartered status
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Formal training in supervision
Desirable
- Post-qualification specialist training in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g. ACT, CFT, VIG, Infant Mental Health, CBT.
- Formal leadership/management training
- Formal Quality Improvement training
Other requirements
Essential
- Clean driving licence and flexible approach to work: Post holder will be required to travel between sites
- Able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching and training health professionals in psychological concepts
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and consultation, with psychologists and other professional groups
- Experience designing, conducting and leading on research activities at a doctoral level including service related research and audits.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services and innovation and improvement
Desirable
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working in a neonatal, paediatric, perinatal or critical care environment.
- Experience of contributing to strategic, clinical or organizational development and/or service development or service redesign
- Published articles/research (or contributor to)
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in highly complex groups (e.g. complex PTSD, dual diagnoses, etc) and an understanding of neurodiversity and implications for intervention and parental experience on the unit
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others.
- Ability to cope with workload pressure.
- Self-aware and emotionally resilient to be able to work within an emotive area.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist knowledge
Essential
- Evidence of up-to-date skills and is clinically competent in current role
- Skills and knowledge of using Microsoft office for use with audits, research and presentations to wider audiences
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professionals and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Sound knowledge of key national issues/agendas relevant to the neonatal field
- Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of practice development and evidence based practice.
Personal skills/abilities and attributes
Essential
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Ability to work autonomously, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to adapt to changing needs of the service
- Excellent time management skills and highly developed organisational skills
- Able to demonstrate good multidisciplinary team working
- Able to work flexibly with a high degree of autonomy
- Diplomacy and ability to work collaboratively
- Self -motivated, able to set own priorities and meet changing priorities and deadlines
- Evidence of an enthusiasm for developing practice in current role
- Excellent role model and high standards of conduct and behaviour
- Positive and proactive approach to problem solving.
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support parents, families and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
- Able to maintain professionals standards and objectivity under pressure
- Able to reflect on own performance
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns
- Good and appropriate use of formal and informal supervision
- Well organised and an effective team player
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Health In Mind, (also including remote work and work in Black Country Neonatal Units, Vincent Drive Office Base)
Steelhouse Lane
Birmingham
B4 6NH
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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