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Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologist - Transplant services
| Posting date: | 02 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B15 2GW |
| Company: | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7096986/436-7096986 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
An opportunity has arisen for a 0.8WTE Practitioner Psychologist to join our transplant teams across Renal Live Donor (0.4WTE) and Heart & Lung Transplant (0.4WTE) 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. The Heart and Lung transplant service works with patients with advanced heart failure and respiratory disease. Patients who are not suitable for heart transplant at the time of their assessment, may be offered a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) as a bridge to transplant. As a psychologist, your role will be to consider how to offer a timely and effective service to meet the differing needs of the patient populations across the patient pathway, with an emphasis on pre-transplant psychological assessment and follow-up psychological intervention.
You will ideally have experience of working in physical health settings, but our principal aim is to recruit a psychologist with the right passion and skills to support a quality service. There is ample opportunity to offer direct psychological interventions, whilst working collaboratively with the MDT.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other psychologists nationally. 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 an understanding of the psychological impact of heart and respiratory failure, renal transplant and how pre-existing vulnerabilities may impact upon the impact of such physical health difficulties. You will be required to work flexibly across outpatient and inpatient 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. This role will require face-to-face work, as well as skills in being able to deliver psychological assessment, including pre-surgical assessment, psychological interventions and teaching in a variety of formats, including via the telephone and video link.
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.
You would be working under an 8B Practitioner Psychologist lead for each service. Based on experience, this 0.8WTE post can either be offered at a Band 8a or a Band 7/8a Preceptorship arrangement. Applicants from final year trainees in a Preceptorship arrangement are welcome.
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.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details. Please note we will consider applications for band 7 to 8a preceptorship or band 8a role depending on level of experience, and we welcome applications from final year trainees.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Apr 2025
An opportunity has arisen for a 0.8WTE Practitioner Psychologist to join our transplant teams across Renal Live Donor (0.4WTE) and Heart & Lung Transplant (0.4WTE) 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. The Heart and Lung transplant service works with patients with advanced heart failure and respiratory disease. Patients who are not suitable for heart transplant at the time of their assessment, may be offered a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) as a bridge to transplant. As a psychologist, your role will be to consider how to offer a timely and effective service to meet the differing needs of the patient populations across the patient pathway, with an emphasis on pre-transplant psychological assessment and follow-up psychological intervention.
You will ideally have experience of working in physical health settings, but our principal aim is to recruit a psychologist with the right passion and skills to support a quality service. There is ample opportunity to offer direct psychological interventions, whilst working collaboratively with the MDT.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other psychologists nationally. 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 an understanding of the psychological impact of heart and respiratory failure, renal transplant and how pre-existing vulnerabilities may impact upon the impact of such physical health difficulties. You will be required to work flexibly across outpatient and inpatient 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. This role will require face-to-face work, as well as skills in being able to deliver psychological assessment, including pre-surgical assessment, psychological interventions and teaching in a variety of formats, including via the telephone and video link.
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.
You would be working under an 8B Practitioner Psychologist lead for each service. Based on experience, this 0.8WTE post can either be offered at a Band 8a or a Band 7/8a Preceptorship arrangement. Applicants from final year trainees in a Preceptorship arrangement are welcome.
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.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details. Please note we will consider applications for band 7 to 8a preceptorship or band 8a role depending on level of experience, and we welcome applications from final year trainees.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Apr 2025