Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 820-6383090-LD
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- greenfields
- Town
- kings norton
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5 Clinical Psychology Assistant Practitioner (Higher Level)
Band 5
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
This fixed term 24-month post is based in the Birmingham-wide specialist community service for people with learning disabilities. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Assistant Psychologist to support and enhance the provision of psychology services within our city-wide multidisciplinary Community Forensic Team (CFT). The CFT provides assessment and intervention for people with learning disabilities with a risk of offending.
Main duties of the job
This fixed term post will encourage the utilisation of a wide range of psychological skills within CFT, and the wider Learning Disabilities Service. The post holder will be an experienced Assistant Psychologist who ideally has previous experience of working in a forensic and/or learning disability setting and who ideally has access to a car, as the post involves working across the city. There are two Psychologists in CFT. The post holder will be based in the South Community Team Hub in Kings Norton, Birmingham, but CFT is a city-wide service. Therefore, there will be travelling across the city and occasionally outside of Birmingham.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This fixed term post will encourage the utilisation of a wide range of psychological skills within CFT, and the wider Learning Disabilities Service. The post holder will be an experienced Assistant Psychologist who ideally has previous experience of working in a forensic and/or learning disability setting and who ideally has access to a car, as the post involves working across the city. There are two Psychologists in CFT. The post holder will be based in the South Community Team Hub in Kings Norton, Birmingham, but CFT is a city-wide service. Therefore, there will be travelling across the city and occasionally outside of Birmingham.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- upper class second honours degree or higher in psychology
- eligibility for graduate membership of british psychological society
Desirable criteria
- further post graduate training in relevant areas
Experience
Essential criteria
- posr graduate work in LD/MH
- experience as an assisitant psychologist
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision
skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- high level communication skills
- able to communicate sensitive information
- understanding of mental health problems
- understanding of psychology applied to healthcare
- can apply psychological knowledge to a care content
Desirable criteria
- experience of IT
- high standard of report writing
personal qualities
Essential criteria
- self motivated
- positive,energetic,enthusiastic
- ability to manage under pressure
- able to work independantly and in a team
other job requirements
Essential criteria
- able to accept supervision and use appropriately
- ability to reach scheduled appointments across city
- travel independently
Desirable criteria
- ability to undertake planned out of hours work
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Morna Browning
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 4663900
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