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1.0  WTE CLINICAL/FORENSIC  CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGIST

Band 8C (2 year Secondment / Fixed Term ) Ardenleigh

Ardenleigh consists of 30 bedded Women’s Blended Secure Service plus an outreach service and a 10 bedded medium secure FCAMHS service as well as a community Youth FIRST service.  Inpatient service users are detained under the Mental Health Act and have a history of actual or potential harm to others. Intervention is offered across medium and low levels of security. 

This post provides an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the leadership, management and delivery of psychological services within the Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) division. There are currently around 80 psychological staff within SCOH across a variety of inpatient and community services, a number of which are psychologically led.   These additional contracts involve a training and consultation project with the Probation service and are part of the OPD pathway. Also, part of this pathway are a prison based personality disorder day treatment service for women (CAMEO) and intensive intervention and risk management service (PROSPER enhanced IIRMS) which offer services for both men and women. Also within the division are a forensic parenting assessment service, a consultation service with West Midlands police and a new Enhanced Reconnect pilot project working with high risk, high complex men and women leaving prison.

Main duties of the job

The division’s psychological provision is multi-model and includes CBT; CAT; DBT; MBT and EMDR. Creative therapies are also embedded in services. The emphasis is to provide a high quality, inclusive psychological service for individuals with complex, often high risk and long term problems. 

The post reflects a leadership role in the management of services and the strategic development of psychological service provision to offer a safe, effective, and valued clinical service with pathways to support recovery. The Consultant Psychologist role will involve leading and managing a team of psychological professionals and staff from other disciplines.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, robust, inclusive and innovative practitioner interested in developing services, as well as undertaking clinical and therapeutic work with people with complex presentations. A commitment to developing psychologically minded and well informed professional teams with a quality and inclusive focus is important. Collaborating with service users and their families and carers and including their perspectives across all clinical and service developments is expected.   Good leadership and communication skills, a commitment to multi-disciplinary working, excellent time management and organisational skills are essential . Experience of secure inpatient environments, community pathways, working with those who have experienced adverse early life experiences all is highly desirable.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.  Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year.  We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community.  If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.

Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.

All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.

If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The subscription will cost you £13 a year but the Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.

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