Job Title | Senior Clinical Psychologist |
Location | Birmingham |
Job Type | Permanent |
Speciality | Senior Clinical Psychologist |
Rates | £45,753 - £51,668 per annum |
Description
Your responsibilities will include:
To provide a high level of expertise for specialist psychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
To complete preadmission assessments, developing highly specialist, collaborative and holistic neurobehavioural formulations of an individual’s rehabilitation needs, including the development of SMART goals.
To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of service user’s neuropsychological and mental health problems based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence-based best practice.
To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi-disciplinary team.
To develop service delivery in conjunction with managers and clinicians, that meets CQC’s and clinical governance’s standards of excellence.
What are we looking for?
The successful applicant will have a doctorate in clinical psychology (or equivalent) accredited by the BPS. It is essential that you are able to gather, analyse and interpret complex multi-factorial clinical information, and formulate this so as to effectively direct team working. Alongside this, you will be a registered Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC.
We are looking for an individual who has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to deal with complex and emotive subjects.
You will have excellent organisation skills, the ability to prioritise workloads, the ability to administer and interpret a range of psychometric tests, and a track record of conducting clinical research or audit.
We are looking for a principal psychologist with experience in neurorehabilitation, an interest in neuropsychology, and motivated to develop an excellent service further.