Senior Clinical Psychologist

Job summary

Options for Care is looking to recruit an exceptional Senior Clinical Psychologist who is passionate about working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses. The successful candidate will be based at Stanford Court, our new mental health inpatient unit, located in Highgate, Birmingham.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to work with our service users across our inpatient units; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. In addition, you will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About us

Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham. Our primary objective is to empower service users and help them realise their full potential through improvements in their quality of life and a steady progression towards recovery, culminating in successful discharge.

Stanford Court is a 19-bed male mental health high dependency inpatient unit based in Highgate.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to service users across our inpatient units; providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to the multi-disciplinary team, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

The assessments and interventions undertaken will be embedded within the framework of:

• MDT principles of working
• The SAFE model (shared assessment, formulation and education)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology
• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside Options for Care.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within professional settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Options for Care

Address

106 Moseley Road

Birmingham

B12 0HG

Employer's website

https://optionsforcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)