Role: Principal Clinical/Forensic Psychologist Location: 1 Avenue Rd, Aston, Birmingham, B6 4DU, UK Job type: Full time permanent Salary: As per market Start date: Immediate Job purpose: Shared responsibility for the leadership and management of the Healthy, Safe, Behaviour Team (HSB Harm-ful 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. Work autonomously within guidelines and exercise responsibility for ensuring the quality and standards of professional practice and performance in the relevant areas of service delivery. Ensuring equality of access to the service, and collaborative working between service users/carers and key partner agencies. 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. Experience of undertaking service evaluation, audit, and / or clinically relevant research. Advanced level knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, for-mulation, and intervention frequently requiring sus-tained and intense concentration. Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism and make appropriate decisions in the face of highly emotive and distressing issues (including significant child abuse & neglect), stress and conflict, possible verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse. Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex qualitative and quantitative data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology. Advanced computer, IT & keyboard skills, including ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Evidence of continuing professional development, including willingness to participate in further training, as recommended by BPS/HCPC in line with expectations of a highly specialist role. Key responsibilities: To lead the development of Clinical / Forensic Psychology support services within HSB. To clinically and professionally supervise, oversee and line manage the work of Clinical / Forensic Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists within HSB. Ensuring the allocation of work meets the needs of customers/service users To lead the recruitment, appraisal and personal development plans of clinical / forensic psychology staff, and assist in the recruitment of other staff as required. Undertake disciplinary, grievance, managing attendance and complaints investigations To deploy and control the use of psychology resources and be responsible for budgetary control. To provide effective management support and individual supervision and guidance to staff within HSB, and/or the wider service as required. Actively support the work of the Head of Service HSB by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the post or the needs of the service as necessary. To manage referrals to Psychology, prioritising according to need and informing allocation of as-sessment and therapy cases to both internal and external providers. This includes close liaison with partner agencies and externally commissioned providers. To develop and deliver highly specialist psychology services to meet the needs of children and their families accessing a HSB service. This includes the assessment of children with complex social care, psychological health needs, and offending sexualised behaviour and at times high risk presenta-tions; based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a number of sources including psychological (and neuro-psychological) tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct & semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and multi-agency profes-sionals involved in a service user care. To formulate and implement plans for psychological treatment and psychologically informed care plans, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across a range of care and support settings; to re-formulate over time as appropriate, drawing upon different psychological models, theories and principles and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about a broad range of treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To be responsible for the implementation of a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for children in care, care leavers, their parents, carers, families and groups, within and across teams. Communicating highly complex condition related information to children, young people, their families and/or carers, where there may be significant defensiveness, resistance or even hostility and which requires empathy, reassurance and the highest levels of interpersonal and communication skills. Frequently managing painful and/or upsetting events whilst dealing with family dysfunction, relationship breakdown, abuse and trauma histories and/or significant psychological health difficulties. High exposure to people who may exhibit verbal and/or physical aggression or manipulative behav-iour, harmful sexualised behaviour, or disturbed personality where there is a potential for aggres-sion or malicious complaint and managing clinical risks involved. Taking responsibility for highly specialist risk assessment and risk management plans for children and young people and providing advice and consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and man-agement. ? Frequently carrying out complex and focused clinical assessments and interventions that require intense concentration for long periods. To undertake risk assessments and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management as required. To provide highly specialist advice, guidance, consultation to other professionals on their assessment, formulation and therapy, intervention or care plans for children and families. To identify and share psychologically informed best practice within HSB in the field of children, young people, and their families and psychological therapies and support and related topics; through the provision of advice, consultation, teaching and training and dissemination of psychological knowledge, research & theory. To be responsible, as Principal Clinician, for the development and co-ordination of comprehensive, high quality psychological support services for children and families. Including advice and guidance to Team Managers and Heads of Service. To contribute to wider services developments across agencies (e.g. health) and commissioning processes. Keep under regular/systemic review the effectiveness of policies, procedures and practices, includ-ing recommending changes in the light of developments in national guidance/legislation. Ensure changes are effectively communicated internally. ? Represent the Service/Department in meetings etc. as required. ? Lead on the development (and delivery where appropriate) of psychologically informed teaching and training programmes for professionals, parents and carers as required. ? To contribute to teaching on the University Clinical / Forensic Psychology Doctorate programmes in areas relevant to children and young people and harmful sexualised behaviour and provide spe-cialist third year clinical / forensic placements to clinical / forensic psychology doctorate trainees. ? To undertake and contribute as appropriate to the supervision of Clinical / Forensic Psychologists and other HSB staff whilst keeping abreast of current developments in psychological research, theory and practice, and maintain expertise in areas of special interest. ? Observe the professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical / Forensic Psychology, and HCPC, and adhere to all Birmingham Childrens Trust policies and proce-dures. Including maintaining the highest standards of clinical record keeping, electronic data en-try, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance. Contributing to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of prac-tice through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development pro-grammes, in consultation with the Head of Service ? Contributing to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the ser-vices by continuing to develop the reflective and scientific-practitioner model, taking part in regu-lar professional supervision and appraisal, and maintaining an active engagement with current de-velopments in the field of Clinical / Forensic Psychology and related disciplines. ? To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to mental health, emotional well-being, and harmful sexualised behaviour