Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 381-SS-7000391
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City Health Campus
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- 拢46,148 - 拢52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.
We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As 鈥淧eople鈥 is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
This is an exciting, varied role, working alongside three experienced Clinical Psychologists in a service where psychology is well established and we are core team members.听听
You will be joining a friendly, supportive and forward thinking MDT, consisting of Pain Consultants, Nurse Specialists, Physiotherapists and Psychologists who strive together to deliver the highest quality pain service. 听You will be based at City Health Campus and required to work flexibly including working from home and working across a number of community clinics.
As well as providing individual assessment/therapy for our patients, there is opportunity to take an active role within our group programmes, in order to facilitate long-term pain self management. You will be part of the team leading the delivery of the Self-Management Programme, Pain Activity Group and monthly Pain Support Group. 听In addition, you will also have the opportunity to provide consultation and joint working within the team and contribute to service developments and research activity.听 We are strongly committed to providing supervision and CPD opportunities.
This role would suit a newly qualified practitioner psychologist, or someone wanting to develop their career further. 听You will need strong communication skills and enthusiasm for team working.听 Direct experience of working in Pain Service settings is not essential, as we recognise that people can transfer experience from other settings.听
Main duties of the job
To aid in the provision of a psychology service to the multidisciplinary Pain clinic, providing highly specialist psychological assessment and interventions and offering consultation on clients鈥 psychological care to non-psychology colleagues, working with regular supervision but also autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team鈥檚 policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care听organisation with a budget of approximately 拢600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.听
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.听
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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We have three strategic objectives:
- Our People 鈥 to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients 鈥 to be good or outstanding in everything we do Our Population 鈥 to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification听 for full details of the role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical or health psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society
- Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist or about to qualify with above from a BPS approved training course.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and experience in research methodology and/or other fields of applied psychology in a healthcare setting
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and interventions, including self management support.
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT), in either primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.
- Experience of working within a physical health setting as part of an MDT
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of graduate psychologists
- Experience of the application of psychological approaches in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in pain management or other long term health conditions.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jayne Hickman
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 5074866
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