Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- NHS
- Part Time
- Brize Norton
- 74290.00 - 85601.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
A part-time Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist position is available at the Mental Health Team (MHT), RAF Brize Norton. We are looking for a psychologist with excellent clinical skills, a committed team focus and experience of strategic change and service development. You'll adapt to a new organisational culture whilst still upholding the highest standards of professional practice.
The successful applicant will join a recently re-established mental health team at RAF Brize Norton and form part of wider network of psychology colleagues providing a clinical psychology service with an occupational focus to Armed Forces personnel across South Wales and the South West.Our service offer includes remote video consultation which provides some opportunities for hybrid working within this office-based role.
If you are seeking a new challenge, enjoy working collaboratively and would like to add military mental healthcare to your career portfolio then this could be the role for you!
This is a part-time position that will offer the successful candidate 30 hours per week and we'd welcome your interest and application.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical psychology service within the South West network (RAF Brize Norton).
You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. You will work to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical delivery and professional supervision and support of all other staff within the service/ team for which you have designated responsibility. This will include effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of continuing professional development (CPD) needs across the network/local team.
You will act as a highly specialist clinical resource to the wider professional community and carry out service-level research, audit, policy and service development.
About us
Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force, regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parentalleave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Providing highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuro psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with clients, chain of command and others involved in the clients care.
- Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental and/or health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings. Such treatment plans will accommodate the, sometimes conflicting, needs of the client and their military employer, and must have sufficient flexibility to enhance the clients operational efficacy whilst delivering optimum clinical care. Of necessity, this requires full liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and the military executive/line-management system.
- Ensuring that all members of the wider clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Selection Process
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills,knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Civil Service Behaviours:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
Should you be selected for interview, you will also be required to provide a short (approximately 7 minute) presentation on a topic relevant to the role, the title of which will be shared with shortlisted candidates.
You may also be asked to discuss a clinical vignette
Further Information
Please see the link to our You tube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised)effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply.Please see the attached further information document for full details.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.
Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
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