Senior Clinical Psychologist - Development Post Opportunity - 7 / 8a

Job overview

Senior Clinical Psychologist

Band 7 / 8a – Development Post Opportunity

Inpatient Services for people with Intellectual Disabilities

Specialist Assessment and Treatment Services (SATs) & Adolescent Unit,

Brooklands Hospital, Marston Green, Birmingham

Full-time, permanent

Do you enjoy working creatively?

Are you passionate about making a difference to people’s lives?

Do you enjoy working as part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team?

We are recruiting a Clinical Psychologist to join the team working within inpatient services for people with Intellectual Disabilities at Brooklands Hospital across the Specialist Assessment and Treatment service for adults and Adolescent Inpatient Service.

Psychologists in the services are fully integrated within collaborative multi-disciplinary teams, whilst also working closely with other psychologists on service development projects, to deliver training and develop groups and other interventions. The contribution of psychological services is highly valued within the teams and service management, and the team are often involved in developing innovative solutions to service needs.

Ideally applicants will have post qualification experience of working with adults and/or young people with Intellectual Disabilities in community or inpatient settings.  However, we would welcome applications from individuals with experience in other settings who are interested in working in this area and can demonstrate a commitment to this client group.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have opportunity to use the whole range of their psychological skills and experience. This will include clinical input in the form of assessments, individual and group therapies, team formulation, reflective practice and supporting other staff to undertake psychological interventions.  They will also be involved in providing training and supervision to others and contributing to and leading on service development projects and undertaking audit and research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the role, please see the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications.

If you do not yet meet the criteria for the band 8a role, we will also support applications from candidates that meet the criteria for the band 7 role and job description (please see “additional documents” on NHS Jobs).

In these instances, the successful candidate would be appointed to a “Development Post” role at band 7 and provided opportunities and support to progress to the band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme. It is expected that this process will be achievable within a period of up to two years, although timescales may vary between different staff members in Development Posts.  In the event that elements of the expected competencies to progress to 8a are not fully met, the role will remain as a band 7.

This will be further discussed as part of the interview and recruitment process as appropriate. Applications from newly qualified/soon to qualify clinicians would therefore be welcomed.