Applied Psychologist in General Medicine

Job summary

Are you a compassionate and committed psychologist who champions inclusion? Join our Clinical Health Psychology, General Medicine Service and help people cope with and adjust to a range of physical health conditions, including diabetes, renal, respiratory, gastroenterology and cardiology conditions. You will support patients to improve their mental health and wellbeing while living with these conditions.

The postholder will play an essential role in ensuring that psychological perspectives inform care across multidisciplinary teams. You will provide specialist clinical input to people referred to the service and work closely with the teams supporting this patient group. Alongside your work with patients and their families, you will support staff through training, consultation and supervision.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Health Psychology Service is a team of psychologists who help people adapt to and develop creative ways of living well alongside physical health problems. The BCHFT Clinical Health Psychology Service operates across three geographical areas: Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell and West Birmingham, with a number of contracts in each area.

We provide psychological input to General Medicine services across Dudley and Wolverhampton. You will join a wider team of psychologists working across services for people with long-term health conditions, with robust supervision and support provided.

About us

Psychological professionals form a large professional group within BCHFT, giving you access to wider support, learning and development opportunities beyond the Clinical Health Psychology team.

This post will be based at Cross Street Health Centre. The successful applicant may also be required to support other parts of the General Medicine Service according to service need. Full clinical and operational support will be provided.

You may wish to discuss combining this post with our fixed-term Sandwell Stroke role if you are seeking additional hours. We also welcome applications from recently qualified clinical psychologists interested in a Band 7 to Band 8a development role.

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

• Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours.

• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.

• To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health or learning disabilities.

• To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.

• In line with the banding of the post and its service context to:

Exercise supervisory/professional 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 service redesign and cultural change

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

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.
• HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist with Chartered Status
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Registration with BPS

Experience

Essential

• Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
• Teaching, training, consultancy and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.