Job summary
Band 7- 8a preceptorship post 37.5
hours per week
Do you want a role what will support
creativity and innovation?
Are you interested in service development?
A
number of projects are currently underway across the 4 Core Teams in Birmingham. These are secondary care multidisciplinary
mental health teams for age 0 to 25 years.
These include:
Developing a coherent multidisciplinary
group programme for people with complex needs (including co-producing with
people with lived experience - resources, facilitation and training)
Developing trauma informed care through
every step of a child, young person or familys journey
Using the three-phase model of treatment:
stabilisation, processing and integration to help staff and service users make
informed choices about care and interventions
If
you are interested in developing both your individual clinical work, alongside
developing services so that we can provide efficient and effective care then
please apply or contact one of us for more details.
Here are some quotes from people who have
been working for us:
In the first six months of working at FTB I have been offered and
supported to attend a wealth of training and development opportunities. I am
glad to have joined an organisation that so clearly values and supports my
development.
the support provided to
me at FTB has helped me to develop my leadership
qualities and grow as an all-round psychologist, not just a therapist.
Main duties of the job
We are all
continually learning and improving and have lots of work to do; so we are looking
for someone to join the team who is full of enthusiasm and ideas to meet the
mental health needs of our multi-cultural city.
We have vacancies in specialist teams in FTB and there may be an
option for a split role for interested candidates and this would be discussed
further at interview.
RECRUITING
MANAGER CONTACT DETAILS
For an informal
discussion about these roles please contact: Katie Wilkinson, Consultant
Clinical Psychologist, Katie.wilkinson16@nhs.net or Ruth Stevens, Principal
Psychologist, Ruth.stevens2@nhs.net
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the
first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive
forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and
mental health care for our women, children and families.
Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment
to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading
neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in
shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist
paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham
Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the
busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year
offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward
Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative
community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB
offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people
aged 0-25 years old.
Our 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.
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
- Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist eligible for chartered status
- Skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with mental health needs
- Registration with appropriate body (eg HCPC, ACP, BACP, AFT)
- Post qualification training in specific psychological therapies and interventions with children, young people and young adults with mental health difficulties
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working with children, adolescents and their families with mental health needs
- Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of mental health settings to include outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings.
- Experience of assessing and managing risky clients in the community.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical 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 within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical/counselling psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
- Some experience of supervision
- Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
- Experience of neuropsychological assessment
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Other
Essential
- Interest in developing services for clients within a 0-25 mental health service. Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist eligible for chartered status
- Skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with mental health needs
- Registration with appropriate body (eg HCPC, ACP, BACP, AFT)
- Post qualification training in specific psychological therapies and interventions with children, young people and young adults with mental health difficulties
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of working with children, adolescents and their families with mental health needs
- Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of mental health settings to include outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings.
- Experience of assessing and managing risky clients in the community.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical 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 within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- 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.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical/counselling psychology.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
- Some experience of supervision
- Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
- Experience of neuropsychological assessment
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Other
Essential
- Interest in developing services for clients within a 0-25 mental health service. Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families.
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
Finch Road Primary Care Centre
2 Finch Road
Birmingham
B19 1HS
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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