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Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist

Oldbury, B68 9AG
Up to £51,000pa DOE
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Overview

Oldbury, B68 9AG
Full Time
Up to £51,000pa DOE
5 December 2024

Are you an outstanding Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist with a passion for delivering high quality care? 

Cygnet Health Care have been providing a national network of specialist mental health services for more than 30 years.

We need a Qualified Psychologist who’s passionate about helping people with a range of complex mental health needs.  So if you care about making a difference – every day – we want to hear from you.

With us, you’ll have the chance to progress your career as part of a dynamic, supportive team.   We have an exciting opportunity for either newly or recently qualified Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologists.

Cygnet Hospital Oldbury:

Cygnet Hospital Oldbury is a new state-of-the-art PICU and Acute hospital for women. The service has two wards, a 12 bed PICU ward and a 15 bed Acute ward.  Cygnet Hospital Oldbury has a full multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and supports the acute needs of adults requiring rapid access to mental health services, including those who may need an intensive care environment.

We’re focused on length of stay and making sure individuals move as quickly and safely as possible from our services to the most appropriate and least restrictive environment for them.

The post-holder will have a key role in providing a high quality of psychology service to patients across all aspects of care.

Your Day-to-Day…

  • To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by Assistant Psychologists and other clinical members of the service who provide psychologically-based care and treatment.
  • To undertake specialist psychological assessments, interpretation from psychological tests, semi-structured interviews, individual and group therapy.  You will also consider potential risks and social needs of the client group, relevant to their diagnosis.
  • To formulate and implement care plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing therapeutic methods based on evidence.
  • You will be expected to offer psychological insight and knowledge around the clinical area and provide consultation about the psychological care of the client group to staff, families and other agencies.
  • You will have opportunity to develop skills in professional postgraduate teaching, training and supervision in accordance with Department needs and as identified in the appraisal review process.
  • You will also have involvement in audit, policy, service development along with the assessment and interpretation of outcomes.

We are looking for someone who is…

  • A HCPC registered Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychologist with experience in a clinical forensic or mental health setting
  • Able to work effective as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Preferably trained in complex therapies such as Schema focused, Compassion Focused and DBT, but not essential
  • Passionate about working with people with a range of complex mental health needs
  • Has an understanding of trauma informed care and gender specific issues
  • Capable of working with difficulties such as self-harm and suicide attempts, physical & verbal aggression, drug and alcohol problems and offending behaviour.

Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you…

  • Free parking
  • Free meals for staff on duty
  • Group pension plan
  • NHS Discount Cards & Blue Light Card (includes big brand discounts)
  • Strong career progression opportunities
  • Clinical supervision and peer support

Plus much more…

A career at Cygnet comes with excellent benefits. Whether it’s saving you money on the high street, with healthcare, holidays and leisure – or securing your future with professional development and a pension – we support you to be happy both in and out of work.

Requirements

The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS and reference check and an offer of employment will be subject to successful clearance.

Benefits & Rewards

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Group Pension

We’ll look after you beyond Cygnet by helping you save for your future with a pension scheme. Cygnet provides a monthly contribution into your pot for every month you actively pay in.

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Free Mortgage Broker & Insurance Cover

Cygnet understands that buying a home is probably the biggest and most important financial decision for most of us. As a result we have partnered with L&C to offer free mortgage advice, free insurance cover and receive a voucher on completion of your mortgage

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Enhanced Maternity

In addition to statutory pay, Cygnet provides enhanced maternity pay.

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Free Life Assurance Cover

Cygnet provides a Group Life assurance scheme which pays out a lump sum benefit to your family or next of kin in the event of your death whilst employed by Cygnet.

Plan your commute

Cygnet Head Office

Oldbury
West Midlands
B68 9AG

Colleague to colleague endorsements

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Haley Hanson

Therapy Co-coordinator/ Support Worker
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Haley has recently joined the therapy team from support worker. Haley is very passion about her job. Patients here at aspen clinic requested therapy animals for a long time. Haley organised a donation day and raised money for us to have quails. She put forward the idea which was approved. Now we have our very own quails! Haley goes above and beyond

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Maria Iqbal

Team Leader
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Maria provided great comfort for one of our residents who really struggles having a blood test. She managed on 2 occasions to successfully support nursing staff to get very important blood tests completed for this resident. Thank you for your hard work comforting this resident Maria.

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Priyanka Bakshi

Counselling Psychologist
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Priyanka deserves to be rewarded for her hard work developing a functional analysis for a complex young person. Her work is helping our team to develop a formulation to understand the young person and support them in the best way. Priyanka has dedicated a lot of her time to this and we are very lucky to have her as a part of our team.

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Leanne Tonks

Nurse
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Leanne is someone who started at Cygnet in Domestic Services and has worked from this position to support, a nursing associate, and completed her nurse training with Cygnet. She is now employed on the same ward where she started and she is excelling in the role. She is confident and competent and she has a can do attitude and gets tasks completed.

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Kristina Robinson

Cleaner
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Kristina goes above and beyond every single day at work, she is incredible at supporting the residents and having the ‘on the spot’ tools and knowledge to diffuse situations and inspire residents to change their mindset. She is great at helping residents to express themselves and to be as independent as possible. She is an asset to the team.

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Felly Loota-Ebola

Support Worker
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Felly has established an incredibly strong relationship with a resident who shows particularly challenging behaviours. Felly worked consistently with this resident whilst he was in the hospital, never once complaining and allowing for this time to be alot easier for the resident as he had someone there that he likes and trusts to help him.

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Khumbalani Moyo

Support Worker
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Khumbalani recently supported a resident to hospital who hasn’t successfully attended a hospital appointment for many years. Through his comforting techniques and communication he managed to safely and calmly support this gentleman to carry out a successful appointment. Well done Khumbalani thank you for your comforting support.

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Andrew Chikaura

Support Worker
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Andrew ensured that a service user who had in the past refused to visit family was taken there, despite this was late in the day Andrew took him to see his family, that brief moment made a lot of difference in the life of the family. The family who where gathered with other extended members where very grateful.

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Juan Mass

Speciality Dr
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Dr Mass has been dedicated to working with and supporting patients with their physical health. Recently, 81% of the patients at Sherwood House have consented to engage with blood tests. This is a huge increase in comparison to previous months and a direct reflection of Dr Mass hard work and dedication.

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Ajibola Peters

Digital Media Technical Instructor
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We were recently filming a Music 2 Empower video with a patient at Cygnet Bury Hudson and Ajibola came in on his day off to support both the patient and us with the filming. Giving up his free time to do this shows how much it means to Ajibola to showcase the achievements of service users and demonstrates not just flexibility but Passion & Support.

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