# Senior Applied Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-applied-psychologist/028287e8-ce4a-4c46-876a-8601654ba145 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-applied-psychologist/028287e8-ce4a-4c46-876a-8601654ba145.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Bushey Fields Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Salary:** £57528.00 to £64750.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-30T15:09:23.893Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8334403 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8334403?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role is a 1.0 Full Time post within the Adult Mental Health division of BCHFT. As the largest clinical Division in the Trust, the MH Division houses community, urgent care, specialist and Physical Health Psychology. Our community services have been transforming, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, and you would be joining us at the point where our CMHTs are formed and fully functioning and psychology is well integrated into the MDT, giving lots of opportunity to be involved in supporting the development of psychological thinking across the MDT. The successful applicant will join the local based team consisting of clinical and counselling psychologists, CBT psychotherapists, DBT practitioners and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists. The post holders will be supported and accountable to the team/service manager, and be professionally and clinically supervised within the psychology team. The successful applicant will be keen to apply their knowledge and skills in a new setting and will be flexible and adaptable in their approaches to psychological work. Excellent team working skills and an ability to accommodate differing professional models is essential. The post holder will develop complex formulations working with individuals with complex presentations, offer supervision, consultancy, and training. ### Main duties of the job As a Senior Applied Psychologist you will work alongside the rest of the psychology team and the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to deliver the psychological provision for the Wolverhampton North CMHT, adopting a trauma informed approach. You will hold a caseload of clients presenting with secondary care level needs, including complex presentations and often risk. Alongside your direct caseload you will offer consultation, supervision, reflective practice and support to the wider MDT and input and support with the development of team formulations, team risk formulation and improving general psychological thinking and understanding across the MDT. We are closely linked to local universities and provide placements for trainees, therefore their may be opportunities for supervising psychological trainees as well as Aston Psychology Degree Students on their placement year. Members of our wider psychology team have a range of therapeutic interests ranging from DBT, EMDR, psychodynamic, ACT, CFT and CBT. There is expertise in consultancy, supervision and training within the psychological professions in the Trust. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to adults with highly complex mental health difficulties which may include risk and challenges. - To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families. - To promote at all times a positive image of mental health difficulties. - To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust. - Exercise supervisory 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 the wider MDT including service design and 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 ### Person Spec **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 - Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice - HCPC registration as An Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status - Experience in clinical supervision - Evidence of continuing professional development - Working as a qualified applied psychologist, working with a variety of client groups, and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings - Experience of teaching, training, consultancy and clinical supervision - Experience of quality and service improvement and evaluation - Knowledge of Evidence-based practice relevant to the role, risk assessment and risk management, Clinical governance, Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, Audit and research methodology - Able to communicate highly sensitive information to a wide range of people, work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, liaise with multiple agencies, demonstrate effective multimedia skills - Able to work in accordance with the Trust Values and Behaviours **Desirable** - BABCP Accreditation - Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies - Formal Training in Clinical Supervision ## Documents - [bchft anti racist declaration (pdf, 222.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2381) - [8a senior applied psychologist person spec (pdf, 661.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10657778) - [8a senior applied psychologist job description (pdf, 607.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10657777) ## 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.