Job summary
Job Opportunity: Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist - Divisional Lead, Adults' Specialist Rehabilitation (ASR)
BCHC is seeking anenthusiastic, compassionate, and dedicated Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist to take on the role of Divisional Lead Psychologist within our Adults' Specialist Rehabilitation (ASR) division.
In this senior role, you will:
- Provide overall leadership of the psychology service provision across the ASR division. This includes, providing, strategic, professional clinical and, organisational development.
- Oversee a wide range of services, including neurological rehabilitation (Level 1b inpatients, stroke inpatients and outpatients, acquired brain injury (ABI) outpatients, specialist clinics), as well as musculoskeletal/pain management, child/adult amputee services, and weight management services.
- You will be supported by a strong psychology team that includes two other consultant clinical psychologists, and receive guidance from the Trust head of psychology and psychological services.
- Be an integral part of the ASR Division senior management team, contributing to the overall leadership and direction of the division.
This is a unique opportunity to shape and lead psychology services in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary rehabilitation setting.
For more details, please refer to the full job description.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will be responsible for strategic planning, organisational development, professional management and overall professional delivery of all psychology service provision in conjunction with the Divisional Leadership Team across ASR.
- To be the Psychology and Psychological Therapies professional lead and advisor and Lead Consultant Psychologist for ASR Divisional services, ensuring the delivery of psychological governance strategies across ASR services.
- To be professionally accountable for existing Psychology and Psychological Therapy services and ensuring the delivery of safe, high quality psychological governance strategies across ASR services and represent the service within senior management and commissioning forums.
For more details, please refer to the full job description.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
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- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
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
- Registered with the HCPC
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Including neuropsychology
- Eligible for inclusion on the specialist register for neuropsychology.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed extensive experience of working as a registered clinical psychologist, including extensive post qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life course presenting with a full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings ( outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care) 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 multi-disciplinary care plan and team.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client groups
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
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
- Registered with the HCPC
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Including neuropsychology
- Eligible for inclusion on the specialist register for neuropsychology.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed extensive experience of working as a registered clinical psychologist, including extensive post qualification experience within the designated speciality where the post is located.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life course presenting with a full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings ( outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care) 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 multi-disciplinary care plan and team.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client groups
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
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).
