Principal Psychologist in ICU

This post offers the opportunity to work closely with the Critical Care Rehabilitation Team at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, alongside providing supervision to the Psychologist at Russell's Hall Hospital. The role sits within a passionate and highly valued multidisciplinary team committed to ensuring patients receive comprehensive rehabilitation and psychological follow-up following admission to Critical Care.

The role includes:

o Attending MDT ward rounds to identify and assess psychological needs following Critical Care admission

o Providing 1:1 therapeutic interventions for inpatients recovering from Intensive Care

o Offering consultation and psychological expertise to ward teams and the wider MDT

o Liaising with, and referring to, community services including GPs and Community Mental Health Teams to support continuity of care following discharge

o Contributing to service development, pathway innovation, and psychologically informed approaches within Critical Care Rehabilitation

o Supporting staff wellbeing and providing psychologically informed consultation to teams working in high-intensity settings

o Contributing to audit, service evaluation, teaching, and training opportunities across the service

Main duties of the job

1.1. Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex and contentious conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.

1.2. Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.

1.3. Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides highly specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group.

1.4. Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients' mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.

1.5. Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required., As a Principal Psychologist, you will be supported by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist within a robust leadership, supervision, and operational management structure. The service is committed to supporting professional development and leadership progression, with opportunities to contribute to supervision, teaching, and wider service initiatives.

We welcome applications from experienced clinicians with a background in physical health settings. However, we are equally keen to hear from applicants working in other specialties who can demonstrate transferable skills and a strong interest in clinical health psychology. We particularly value applicants who demonstrate excellent communication skills, creativity, and the ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary settings.

You will join a supportive and enthusiastic team of practitioner psychologists and psychological professionals who utilise a broad range of therapeutic approaches. There are excellent opportunities for continuing professional development and supervision across a variety of models, including EMDR, psychodynamic, attachment-based, humanistic, and third-wave approaches.

Our Clinical Health Psychology Service supports people to adapt to and develop creative ways of living with physical health conditions. The service currently operates across Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Sandwell & West Birmingham, delivering a range of specialist contracts across these localities.