# Applied Psychologist in General Medicine > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/applied-psychologist-in-general-medicine/593486fd-7bf8-470e-b7f7-b28a0501b71b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/applied-psychologist-in-general-medicine/593486fd-7bf8-470e-b7f7-b28a0501b71b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Bushey Fields Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Salary:** Negotiable - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 11 months (Must end September 2027) - **Employment type:** Part time - 17.25 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T12:28:01.446Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8337990 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8337990?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a compassionate and committed psychologist who champions inclusion? Join our Clinical Health Psychology, General Medicine Service and help people cope with and adjust to a range of physical health conditions, including diabetes, renal, respiratory, gastroenterology and cardiology conditions. You will support patients to improve their mental health and wellbeing while living with these conditions. The postholder will play an essential role in ensuring that psychological perspectives inform care across multidisciplinary teams. You will provide specialist clinical input to people referred to the service and work closely with the teams supporting this patient group. Alongside your work with patients and their families, you will support staff through training, consultation and supervision. ### Main duties of the job The Clinical Health Psychology Service is a team of psychologists who help people adapt to and develop creative ways of living well alongside physical health problems. The BCHFT Clinical Health Psychology Service operates across three geographical areas: Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell and West Birmingham, with a number of contracts in each area. We provide psychological input to General Medicine services across Dudley and Wolverhampton. You will join a wider team of psychologists working across services for people with long-term health conditions, with robust supervision and support provided. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job Purpose - Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health 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 health or learning disabilities. - To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust. - In line with the banding of the post and its service context to: - 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 ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings. - Teaching, training, consultancy and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses. ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. - HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status - Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees - Registration with BPS ## Documents - [bchft anti racist declaration (pdf, 222.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2381) - [jd/ps general medicine - maternity cover (pdf, 434.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661867) - [advert: general medicine - maternity cover (pdf, 39.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661868) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.