Job Description
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.
Job description
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