Band 7/8a Clinical Psychologist Preceptorship

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties working in the Intensive Support Team

BCHC Intensive Support Team (IST) is a specialist city-wide service for people with Learning Disabilities that seeks to prevent avoidable hospital admission and placement breakdown. We also support our community colleagues where service users may be experiencing a deterioration in their mental health. Working in IST will provide an opportunity to support the ongoing work of the Transforming Care Programme (TCP) by improving peoples quality of life through increased support in the community that enables people to remain close to home with the right support. This is achieved through partnership working with key stakeholders including social care and commissioners.

BCHC IST will provide a safe and friendly environment to support all aspects of your clinical work. Being a smaller team, clinicians often report a sense of safety due to our close working relationships and collective team approach. The Intensive Support Team are often invited to get involved in a referral where there is a high level of distress in the system. As such, there are significant opportunities for using therapeutic skills to support the system as well as undertaking specialist assessment, formulation and interventions. Although we may be invited to deliver 1:1 intervention, most of our clinical work involves working indirectly with family carers and staff teams. We also offer consultancy and training to staff teams. We work closely with the MDT to meet the needs of our service users who often present with high and complex support needs and significant risk. The complexity of the work lends itself well to formal risk assessment as well as behavioural, systemic and relational ways of working. The IST lead psychologist is an accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) practitioner. Opportunity for working creatively, sharing expertise and knowledge to support safe and effective care and discharge is limitless. We value professional diversity and interprofessional learning and use our fortnightly IST meeting to promote opportunities to share pieces of work we may have been involved with, including updates on quality improvement projects or other types of small-scale service-related research. There are also opportunities to support the implementation and supervision of reflective practice groups for our nursing colleagues and there are plans to establish a similar provision for our colleagues working in Assistant Practitioner roles.

IST Psychologists we are expected to support Duty and Crisis response processes. These roles are shared by the MDT and like other aspects of the work, visits are undertaken in pairs to maximise staff safety.

As a team we connect more informally over bring and share lunches and team meals.

IST Psychology form part a wider Psychology team. This post will offer opportunities for leadership roles within the division based on your professional interests.

In prioritising the well-being of staff, in addition to receiving regular supervision the successful applicant can expect to access the quarterly LD Psychology forum for peer support and professional updates, and the Health and Well-being HUB that is open to all staff.

As a service we are keen to nurture your professional interest and the Trust promotes opportunities for CPD and training, so if you have a passion to develop your professional identify beyond clinical training, you are encouraged to apply and we look forward to hearing from you.

Key points to note

The relevant Band 7 and Band 8a Job Descriptions and Person Specifications are attached to this document as pertinent to the Preceptorship post.

For those appointed as a band 7, this is a fully supported development post with progression to the Band 8a role upon successful completion of a defined Preceptorship programme. This is not an entitlement to band progression but is based upon the successful achievement of a mutually agreed development plan as monitored by the candidate and their psychology supervisor and reviewed with the Trust Head of Psychology as part of the annual appraisal process. It is expected that this development plan will be achievable within a period of up to 3 years. This timescale will be dependent on the experience of the candidate and will be fully supported by the organisation in terms of supervision, relevant CPD, training and learning opportunities. In the event that the elements of the development plan are not fully achieved as assessed by the Trust Head of Psychology within the pre-agreed timescale, the role will remain as a Band 7 and this outcome will be managed as part of the contract conditions agreed with the candidate at the outset.

This Preceptorship role will be further discussed as part of the interview process and with the preferred candidate as appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• HCPC registered
• Post-doctoral qualification, training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Training in the supervision of doctoral level trainee psychologists.
• Training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Desirable

• qualifications in research/staff training/applied psychology

Experience

Essential

• experience of specialist psychological assessments /treatment
• experience of working with a wide variety of client groups

skills/knowledge

Essential

• skills in use of complex psychological assessments
• communication skills
• consultation skills

personal qualities

Essential

• self motivated
• positive ,energetic,enthusiastic
• ability to manage under pressure /tight deadlines /time management

other job requirements

Essential

• ability to teach/train others
• ability to work within a multicultural framework
• travel independently
• ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Greenfields

30 brookfield road kings norton

Birmingham

B30 3QY

Employer's website

https://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)