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Job overview
The Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT) is delighted to be advertising a fixed term, part-time Psychological Therapy opportunity for an AFC qualified Band 7 or 8a roles in Wolverhampton Adult Secondary Care Community Mental Health Team (CMHT).
Psychology is a vital and influential field, represented at every level in our Trust, including the roles of our Chief Therapies Officer, and also our Chief Clinical Information Officer who are both Consultant Clinical Psychologists.
In the CMHTS, we are a combination of Practitioner Psychologists, CBT Therapists and DBT Therapists offering a range of group and individual therapies in line with recovery models of care and trauma-informed practice.
Main duties of the job
There are opportunities to apply and develop your time limited psychological skills in CBT and DBT. We treat clients with a range of complex mental health problems including C-PTSD, personality disorders, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and moderate to severe presentations of depression and anxiety including OCD, health anxiety, and social anxiety, including comorbidities. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone wishing to extend their experience in secondary care mental health.
Black Country CMHTs have a strong multi-disciplinary ethos, with good links with staff from Tier 1 (Primary Care and Talking Therapies), our Recovery College and VCSE partners. Specialist services support the CMHTs: Complex Emotional Needs; Eating Disorders; Perinatal; 18-25s Transitions Team; Early Intervention in Psychosis; Clinical Health Psychology.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to clients with complex mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.
- To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
- To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
- To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
- Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists
- Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development
- Provide leadership in service audit and development
- Provide leadership in service evaluation and research
- Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change
Applying for this NHS job
This advert is for 7 - 8a Applied psychologist with Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Dudley, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £64,750 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (Cover an existing staff member's leave). The application deadline is 09 Jun 2026.
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