Job Title: Principal Clinical/Forensic Psychologist
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Location: Birmingham, UK
Type: Full Time Permanent
Job purpose:
Shared responsibility for the leadership and management of the Healthy, Safe, Behaviour Team (HSB Harmful Sexualised Behaviour Team).
Provide clinical and professional supervision, leadership and management of Clinical / Forensic Psychology services across HSB.
Provide clinical & strategic advice and support to Heads of Service in HSB in relation to the emotional/psy-chological health and sexual wellbeing and development of children and young people with consideration to the wider family and support network.
Ensuring the development and systematic provision of a high quality, multi-level specialist psychology service to children and their families across all sectors of care and support within the remit of HSB; to help under-stand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress and harmful behaviour and improve the mental health, well-being and sexual behaviour of service users.
Ensure the Clinical / Forensic Psychology provision meets BCT and directorate objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, and the needs and expectations of children, young people, parents and carers.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
Essential:
Post graduate doctorate level training in clinical or forensic psychology (e.g. DForenPsy or DClinPsy) accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specific models of psychopathol-ogy, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, 2 AF/Q or more distinctive psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, or a BPS state-ment of equivalence.
Qualification:
Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professionals Council.
Essential Experience :
* Minimum 4 years supervised post qualification experience working with children, young people & and families.
* Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for specialist psychological assessment (including cognitive & neuro-psychological assessment), formulation, planning & delivering interventions across a range of care settings.
* Minimum 2 year working with children who present with children and young people who present with harmful sexual behaviour including mental health difficulties (including complex trauma, attachment difficulties, loss, dual diagnosis), challenging behaviour, and/or neurodevelopmental difficulties (e.g. ASD, ADHD).
* Minimum 12 months supervised experience of providing clinical supervision, and/or specialist training in providing clinical supervision. xsngvjr
* Experience of undertaking service evaluation, audit, and / or clinically relevant research.