Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7/8a Specialist Clinical Psychologist - Ardenleigh
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1 x 0.7 - Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologist with preceptorship (permanent) – Ardenleigh Women’s Secure Blended Service (full time
An exciting job opportunity has arisen to recruit a band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologist, with preceptorship, to join our innovative psychology team at Ardenleigh.
The Women’s Secure Blended Service (WSBS) at Ardenleigh has an incredible national reputation, having been a successful pilot site for the blended security model and a key influence in the National Women’s Secure Pathway Transformation (WSPT) programme. The service is particularly proud of its gender sensitive, trauma informed model of care and commitment to co-production and improvement.
We work alongside a number of professionals, providing safe, containing environments and interventions to help people understand themselves, their mental health and offending behaviour. The team has been at the forefront of service developments, such as establishing the Outreach Service to prevent avoidable admissions, developing partnership working across the pathway to improve quality of care, diversifying psychological therapies to meet the needs of the client group, and leading on the planning and delivery of a national conference in 2023. The service is currently developing a step-down accommodation to support transitions to the community, improving the pathway for women who access secure mental health services.
This exciting role offers the suitable candidate opportunities for leadership, service development and complex clinical work, with a rewarding client group. You will be joining a large and diverse psychological therapies team, consisting of clinical and forensic psychologists, arts therapists, specialist psychological practitioners and assistant psychologists.
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We currently have a 0.7wte team psychologist vacancy but if you are looking for a full-time role, please do get in touch and we can look to accommodate this within the division.
The Practitioner Psychologist role will involve working alongside staff to ensure that service users have the most effective, efficient, relationally connected and contained experience. Within Ardenleigh we also have a strong service user involvement and co-production ethos, having developed group pathways, interventions and training. We will advocate for you to maintain all aspects of your professional role, including service development, research, therapeutic excellence, and leadership as appropriate. We are looking for registered Practitioner Psychologists who are interested in working in secure environments with highly sensitive content. Whilst secure experience will be highly desirable, we encourage a breadth of experience to help bring new thinking to our services as the culture evolves.
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.
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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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Rachel Oakley
Job title: Principal Clinical Forensic Psychologist
Email address: rachel.oakley@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0121 301 4535
If you are ready for the next stage of your career progression, and able to compassionately challenge systems and staff to be better, hold integrity and also connect with the people around you, we hope you apply. The team at Ardenleigh will make you feel welcome, connected and push you to excel in ways that you can envision and beyond, so that alongside service users we are proud of what we do. For an informal discussion please contact Dr Rachel Oakley (rachel.oakley@nhs.net or call 0121 301 4535).
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