Clinical Psychologist

Who we are

Phoenix Psychology is a well\-established independent practice with two bases in the West Midlands. We provide therapeutic services including assessments, interventions, training, consultancy and supervision and we specialise in working with complex trauma presentations across the lifespan.

A guiding principle at Phoenix is the importance of relationships, with connection and compassion at the heart of this. We invest time and energy in the embodiment of these values. Working at Phoenix, you will experience support and room to develop professionally and personally. Always, but particularly in the current climate, we look to offer our team balanced and flexible work practices. In return, we hope that you will be invested in deeply understanding the needs and experiences of our clients and delivering and developing excellent and sustainable services. Phoenix are committed to promoting equality, valuing diversity, and practicing in ways that encourage reflection about the power and responsibilities we hold.

You will ideally have experience of working with children, adolescents and/or adults with complex trauma, with these needs potentially being expressed through a range of challenges, from an adopted child struggling to emotionally regulate themselves, to an adult with a chronic physical condition having to navigate lifelong health complications and services therein, to those engaging with or at risk of serious youth violence. You must have a good understanding of trauma, its impact and associated models of psychological intervention. The work will be varied and can be complex and challenging. Our small and friendly team support each other, and like everyone at Phoenix, we bring passion, commitment, and integrity to our work. The post will be working across a range of contracts many of which require working directly in, alongside and in partnership with a range of statutory and third sector organisations which does mean willingness to travel across the region is essential.

Within the service, we deliver a range of trauma focussed interventions, these include TF\-CBT, CFT, ACT and EMDR alongside Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Practice (DDP). Thus experience in at least one of these modalities is essential and we invest in additional training for our team members to support development. You will receive regular supervision via our experienced team, alongside specialist External Consultants for EMDR and DDP if applicable. Phoenix Psychology delivers interventions directly, via 1:1, family and group alongside indirectly through consultations and through systems. Therefore experience across these various delivery methods would be desirable. We would welcome someone with experience of complex assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions.

Being an independent service, we can be responsive, flexible and ‘think outside the box’ – and the successful candidate must be able to do the same.

Full or part time hours can be considered. This is an entry level role, suitable for someone recently qualified, with the potential for progression into more senior roles over time.

About the Role

• Job Title: Clinical Psychologist


• Accountable to / Supervised by: Principal / Consultant Clinical Psychologist


• Professionally accountable to: Director


• Hours: up to 37\.5 hours a week – in person / hybrid


• Contract Type: Permanent with 3 months probationary period


• Base: Phoenix Psychology, Honiley, Kenilworth / Mere Green, Sutton Coldfield

• To provide qualified psychology input to children, families, adults and services across Phoenix Psychology contracts \- working with complexity and trauma.


• To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individuals, family groups and / or professional networks, with a focus on relevant approaches (e.g. ACT, CFT, TF\-CBT, EMDR, DDP, SFT).


• To offer specialist trauma focused assessments for individuals with complex presentations.


• To offer advice and consultation on psychological care to non\-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers.


• To offer specialised training, consultation and developmental opportunities to professional and non professional audiences.


• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within services provided by Phoenix Psychology.

You will provide psychology services across contracts serviced by Phoenix. You will be expected to work in locations including both of our clinic bases and in the community. This is an in\-person role in line with our service model and the needs of complex client presentations. There are some elements of hybrid working depending upon personal circumstances and contract requirements.

Our Ethos \& Values

At Phoenix Psychology we value relationships, a guiding principle which underpins every aspect of our practice. We believe that relationships facilitate psychological well\-being when they are built on connection, compassion, integrity, honesty, respect and trust and have the aim of encouraging and supporting mutual development and growth. Whether it is within our one to one relationships, our peer connections or our dealings with organisations we invest energy in the embodiment of these values with a view of enhancing the capacity for all to thrive.

Working with Us

• Unique opportunity to work with an independent, forward thinking, organically expanding organisation supported by a small, friendly team of like\-minded professionals.


• Family friendly – recognising and respecting the need for flexible working practices.


• Sense of ownership – ability to plan, put together and carry out bespoke packages of work and see them through to their conclusion.


• Professional development opportunities.


• Meaningful work to genuinely support communities so they can support themselves.


• Leadership opportunities.


• Help to grow and expand the business and invest in its future.


• Person\-centred approach to our team, customers and clients.

Clinical

• To provide specialist psychological assessments referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self\-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi\-structured interviews with individuals, family members and others involved in their care.


• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of an individual’s needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of settings.


• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.


• To evaluate and make decisions about 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 exercise autonomous professional responsibility for all aspects of case management including assessment, intervention and endings alongside ethical and transparent recording of information and communication with all relevant stakeholders.


• To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to an individual’s formulation and intervention plan.


• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all individuals within the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group, including Court proceedings.


• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.


• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of individuals under your care and to monitor progress during any involvement.


• To ensure that all services provided are acceptable and accessible to the individual, carers, family members and professionals of diverse community backgrounds and non discriminatory in nature.


• To promote equality, respond to diversity and practice in ways that encourage self\-reflection / do not discriminate or lead to other forms of unfair treatment

• To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a principle / consultant clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.


• To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and/or the service as agreed with the Director.


• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with individuals, carers and their families across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.

• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team’s operation and provision of services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.


• To advise both your supervisor and Director on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.


• To support the principle / consultant clinical psychologist in establishing new protocols and procedures as changing service demands require.

• To utilise theory, evidence\-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in all areas of work.


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