Principal Psychologist

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 300 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Principle Psychologist to take on a new ongoing contract role.

Psychologist Pay Rate: £60 per hour (assignment rate)

Location: Birmingham

Contract Type: 3 Months

Benefits of working with us:

• Fully online and paperless registration service

• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)

• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.

• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)

• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)

• Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us

• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years experience

• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector

• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Duties of the Principle Psychologist:

• To contribute to the provision and development of the psychology service within the hospital/unit. To provide psychological input in line with the agreed service provision, and the identified risks and needs of the patients.

• Undertake the role ofPrincipal Psychologist for a designated ward(s) and/or group of patients as agreed with the Head of Psychology. This includes assessment, formulation, intervention (group and/or one to one) and evaluation in line with the patient’s presentation and care pathway. Assess patients using appropriate assessments and psychometric measures and interpret and report results accurately

• To co-ordinate delivery of psychological assessment and intervention from other psychology staff including qualified psychologists, trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists and students and where appropriate to act as a point of liaison between the inpatient psychology pathway and the community psychology pathway

• To work alongside senior clinical and managerial staff to improve and maintain the quality of the patient experience and to enable staff to engage in pro-active, therapeutic and meaningful ways with patients.

Requirements of the Principle Psychologist:

• Psychologists must be registered and accredited members of the BACP. (Registered Member MBACP (Accred) or Registered Member MBACP (Snr Accred).)

• Clinical Psychologist with HCPC registration.

• Recent experience working as a psychologist in the UK.

Contact:

This Principle Psychologist job is advertised by Dan Potts; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from: Forensic Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist & Educational Psychologist as we have suitable positions for all of these. If you’re looking for Psychotherapist, Assistant Psychologist or other Mental Health roles we also have these type of vacancies available.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Psychologist role as we need to meet our clients requirements.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.