# Senior Applied Psychologist in Stroke

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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## 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: 12 months (Until the end of January 2028)
- **Employment type:** Part time - 15 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T07:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05T12:28:01.454Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8338025
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8338025?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join the Sandwell Stroke Service, based at Rowley Regis Hospital. This is a Band 8a post at 0.4 WTE (15 hours per week), offered on a fixed-term basis for 12 months to provide maternity cover.

Applicants who would like additional hours are welcome to discuss the possibility of combining this post with another fixed-term opportunity within General Medicine. We also encourage applications from recently qualified Clinical Psychologists who may be interested in a supported Band 7 to Band 8a development post.

### Main duties of the job

Are you a compassionate and committed psychologist who champions inclusion? This is an opportunity to join our Clinical Health Psychology Service within Sandwell Stroke Services, helping people to cope with and adjust to the impact of stroke while supporting their mental health and wellbeing.

You will play an important role in ensuring that psychological perspectives inform care across the community stroke teams. You will provide specialist clinical input to people referred to the service and work closely with the multidisciplinary teams supporting this patient group. Alongside direct work with patients and their families, you will contribute to staff training, consultation and supervision.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- 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.

### 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

## Documents

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- [sandwell stroke jd/ps maternity cover (pdf, 433.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661905)
- [sandwell stroke advert - maternity cover (pdf, 27.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661906)

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