Senior Clinical / Forensic Psychologist - IROC inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED 29 MAY 2024

Job summary

Intensive Residential Outreach Care (IROC) is an enhanced systems support service that provides psychologically informed support for systems working with children and young people within the West Midlands region. These young people have experienced early disruption, trauma and adversity contributing towards their complex psychological presentation. Due to a pattern of placement breakdowns, this cohort of young people experience immense instability and unpredictability in their lives which leads to inappropriate admission into tier 4 services. The aim of IROC is to reduce levels of instability and admissions into tier 4 services by providing a psychologically informed comprehensive package of intervention to professionals and caregivers throughout the West Midlands region.

This is a new and unique approach to children and young people with complex psychological needs and vulnerabilities. This project sits under the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative programme with funding available over the next three years to develop a regional service. The project will be implemented in phases which will include provision of a consultation, formulation and intervention service to the West Midlands region. This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified Senior Clinical/Forensic Psychologist to provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention to the most vulnerable young people of the West Midlands region supported under IROC.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of the role is to:

Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions to clients and their families as well as offering indirect clinical services such as advice and consultation to colleagues and other professionals.

• Contribute towards the development and ongoing offer of the IROC service which will include identifying need and participating in development planning.
• Support staff supervision, and facilitation of client related work undertaken by other team members.
• Be involved in the development and delivery of a range of training to staff and other stakeholders/professionals as required.
• Support the development of research and evaluation processes attached to IROC and BWC trust as a whole.
• Ensure Clinical Governance and operational policies are adhered to whilst working autonomously as required.
• Ensure all aspects relating Continuing Professional Development is met in order to maintain clinical registration.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist eligible for chartered status. Skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with mental health needs
• Post qualification training in specific psychological therapies and interventions with children, young people and young adults with mental health difficulties

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Special Knowledge/Abilities and/or job experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of working with children, adolescents and their families with mental health needs
• Post-qualification experience
• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
• Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of mental health settings to include outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings
• Experience of administrating and interpreting a range of structured professional judgement tools, actuarial and psychometric measures specific to children and young people
• Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and/or young adults in the community
• Experience of working with children' social care, youth offending, education and police services
• Experience of using specialist psychological therapies for patients with co-morbid difficulties
• Experience of assessing and managing risky clients in the community
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of child protection and adult safeguarding processes and procedures
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and young people in the community
• Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
• Some experience of supervision
• Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
• Experience of neuropsychological assessment
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with a range of professionals in community and secure settings
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings

Personal Qualities/Disposition

Essential

• Ability to communicate well and to form good working relationships with professionals at all levels
• A positive approach to working with clients with mental health needs and their families
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professionals and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical [practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload

Circumstances

Essential

• Flexibility regarding working hours, including the ability to work some evenings and weekends as necessary
• Ability to travel across the city of Birmingham, between bases and within the community for work purposes
• Valid Drivers License and Car owner (or have daily access to a car) for work purposes

Interests and Motivation

Essential

• Interest in developing services for clients within a 0-25 mental health service. Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families

Desirable

• Likely to be committed to working within the service for at least two years

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Clinical or Forensic Psychologist eligible for chartered status. Skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with mental health needs
• Post qualification training in specific psychological therapies and interventions with children, young people and young adults with mental health difficulties

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Special Knowledge/Abilities and/or job experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of working with children, adolescents and their families with mental health needs
• Post-qualification experience
• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist
• Experience of providing specialist psychological assessment and treatment for clients across the full range of mental health settings to include outpatient, community, day services and in-patient settings
• Experience of administrating and interpreting a range of structured professional judgement tools, actuarial and psychometric measures specific to children and young people
• Experience of assessing and treating children, young people and/or young adults in the community
• Experience of working with children' social care, youth offending, education and police services
• Experience of using specialist psychological therapies for patients with co-morbid difficulties
• Experience of assessing and managing risky clients in the community
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Knowledge of child protection and adult safeguarding processes and procedures
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and young people in the community
• Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
• Some experience of supervision
• Some experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services
• Experience of neuropsychological assessment
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with a range of professionals in community and secure settings
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings

Personal Qualities/Disposition

Essential

• Ability to communicate well and to form good working relationships with professionals at all levels
• A positive approach to working with clients with mental health needs and their families
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professionals and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical [practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload

Circumstances

Essential

• Flexibility regarding working hours, including the ability to work some evenings and weekends as necessary
• Ability to travel across the city of Birmingham, between bases and within the community for work purposes
• Valid Drivers License and Car owner (or have daily access to a car) for work purposes

Interests and Motivation

Essential

• Interest in developing services for clients within a 0-25 mental health service. Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families

Desirable

• Likely to be committed to working within the service for at least two years

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

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Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Birmingham Childrens Hospital

Printing House Street

Birmingham

B4 6DF

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