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Band 8b Practitioner Psychologist Renal Live Donor Psychology Service
| Posting date: | 25 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 27 March 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B15 2GW |
| Company: | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7036018/436-6932524-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
An opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist to lead the Renal Live Donor Transplant Psychology Service based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The Renal Live Donor Transplant service works with patients on a living donor transplant pathway requiring psychological assessment and follow-up as part of their transplant work-up and care. As a psychologist, your role will be to lead the service offering these psychological assessments and some brief intervention, as well as supporting pathway development with the wider renal transplant MDT & offering an integrated psychology service. The role will also involve supporting some wider scoping of need/interface with renal medicine more broadly.
You will ideally have experience of working in renal care and physical health settings, but our principal aim is to recruit a psychologist with the right passion and skills to continue to lead and develop a gold-standard service. There is ample opportunity to offer psychological interventions, whilst working collaboratively with the MDT. The service is also supported 0.4WTE band 8a practitioner psychology resource.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other psychologists working in renal psychology nationally. You will be welcomed by renal transplant colleagues who are keen to support in the continued development of the service. You will be a valued colleague in our Clinical Health Psychology Service and the Psychological Professionals workforce at BSMHFT.
You will need to be able to demonstrate a highly developed understanding of the psychological aspects of live donor renal transplantation and how this may interact with pre-existing vulnerabilities and mental health. You will also need to be able to address to complexities around altruistic donation and issues affecting both donors and recipients.
In additional to patient-facing work (across a range of modalities/settings), you will be working closely with doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to provide high quality care, and you will need strong skills in consultation, supervision and teaching as part of our multidisciplinary teamwork.
Our mission is to provide excellent psychological care and support for patients and staff, which is compassionate, inclusive and committed. If you thrive on challenge, creativity and a dynamic and supportive work environment, in which psychological thinking is highly valued in the wider multi-disciplinary teams, along with the opportunity to shape the future of the service, this is the job for you.
This is a 22.5 hours per week post.
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.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Mar 2025
An opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist to lead the Renal Live Donor Transplant Psychology Service based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The Renal Live Donor Transplant service works with patients on a living donor transplant pathway requiring psychological assessment and follow-up as part of their transplant work-up and care. As a psychologist, your role will be to lead the service offering these psychological assessments and some brief intervention, as well as supporting pathway development with the wider renal transplant MDT & offering an integrated psychology service. The role will also involve supporting some wider scoping of need/interface with renal medicine more broadly.
You will ideally have experience of working in renal care and physical health settings, but our principal aim is to recruit a psychologist with the right passion and skills to continue to lead and develop a gold-standard service. There is ample opportunity to offer psychological interventions, whilst working collaboratively with the MDT. The service is also supported 0.4WTE band 8a practitioner psychology resource.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other psychologists working in renal psychology nationally. You will be welcomed by renal transplant colleagues who are keen to support in the continued development of the service. You will be a valued colleague in our Clinical Health Psychology Service and the Psychological Professionals workforce at BSMHFT.
You will need to be able to demonstrate a highly developed understanding of the psychological aspects of live donor renal transplantation and how this may interact with pre-existing vulnerabilities and mental health. You will also need to be able to address to complexities around altruistic donation and issues affecting both donors and recipients.
In additional to patient-facing work (across a range of modalities/settings), you will be working closely with doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to provide high quality care, and you will need strong skills in consultation, supervision and teaching as part of our multidisciplinary teamwork.
Our mission is to provide excellent psychological care and support for patients and staff, which is compassionate, inclusive and committed. If you thrive on challenge, creativity and a dynamic and supportive work environment, in which psychological thinking is highly valued in the wider multi-disciplinary teams, along with the opportunity to shape the future of the service, this is the job for you.
This is a 22.5 hours per week post.
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.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Mar 2025