Senior Applied Psychologist

Job overview

Senior Applied Clinical / Forensic / Counselling Psychologist 1.0WTE:

Urgent Care - Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) – Pan Trust (Sandwell, Walsall and Dudley)

An opportunity has arisen for Senior Applied Psychologists to join the CRHTT in BCHFT.    Applicants to any of these locations are welcome and working hour options can be negotiated, however pan-trust cross locality work may be required based on clinical need.

You will join fast paced MDT environments to work in the least restrictive way to support service users presenting with acute and urgent care mental health needs.  Psychology has been well embedded into the foundations of the CRHTT and as the Psychologist, you will exercise your leadership skills in psychological assessments, formulation, care planning and brief psychological interventions.

We have strong links with local universities across the clinical, forensic and counselling courses.

The successful candidate will be part of a group of Psychologists in Urgent Care who are based across acute settings including an established Principal Psychologist in Wolverhampton CRHTT and pan trust in-patients, mental health liaison services and PICU.  The successful candidate will be supported with supervision and opportunities for CPD.

Main duties of the job

You will support the Principal Psychologist for CRHTT and the Consultant Psychologist for Urgent care in the delivery of psychology in CRHTT.  Based in the CRHTT, you will join a team of multidisciplinary professionals in working with people experiencing a mental health crisis. With the 2 main aims of preventing hospital admission and facilitating early discharge you will offer assessments, formulation, care planning and short term interventions to clients with high levels of risk. Psychology also supports team members through regular reflective practice groups and supervision and this is highly valued by our MDT colleagues.

We are looking for someone who can work flexibly and creatively as a member of a multidisciplinary team who enjoys working in a fast paced environment .  Pan trust cross locality working will be expected to support psychological input into the CRHTT's.

We would welcome applications from newly qualified psychological practitioners who are keen to gain experience in urgent care settings and can support with band 7-8a developmental opportunities where appropriate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached detailed job description and person specification in the documents section of this vacancy.