Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 21 hours per week
- Job ref
- 820-7458647-ASR
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Community Nutrition Technical Block, First Floor and Annex, Gee Business Centre
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/10/2025
Employer heading
Band 8b Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist - SWM
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Are you passionate about making a difference through psychological support? Birmingham Community Nutrition are seeking a motivated Clinical Psychologist to join our Specialist Weight Management Team.
Our well-established service provides comprehensive support where psychological input is key. We help patients navigate their weight loss journey with empathy, expertise, and evidence-based care.
As our Psychologist, you will:
• Manage a clinical caseload and deliver community clinics across Birmingham.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including specialist dietitians.
• Develop innovative psychological interventions, supporting individual and group pathways, complementing our newly enhanced group education pathway.
• Lead on research, audits, and service evaluations to inform best practice and continuous improvement.
• Drive service development by influencing policy and clinical approaches.
• Take on leadership responsibilities, including supervision and staff training.
Join our dynamic, outcome-focused team during an exciting period of innovation. Within BCHC you’ll also benefit from links with a wider network of Psychologists in physical health and rehabilitation.
We offer flexible and hybrid working to support your work-life balance and professional needs.
Ready to take the next step in your career and help shape psychological care in weight management in Birmingham? We want to hear from you!
For an informal discussion, contact Kathryn Haywood – details below.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. Expert opinions may differ and a full range of options will need to be considered.
To evaluate and make skilled decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and high complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
See Job Description for full details.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Community Nutrition provides a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham and Solihull ICB and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students from multiple higher education institutions (A, B & C placements) and training of Psychology students.
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust, whose goal is to be a truly inclusive organisation and a great place to work
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist highly complex psychological assessments of clients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests which require complex manipulation and timing skills, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To develop highly complex formulations and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients’ highly complex psychological problems, including family breakdown, serious mental illness, vulnerable adults and aggressive and violent behaviour, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, using advanced and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices across the full range of care settings, where frequent and intense concentration is required.
See Job Description for full details
Person specification
Qualifications/ training
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment and also working within the context of an inter-disciplinary team.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience working with adults with weight management and other similar conditions and complex psychological problems.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group,
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly to support needs of the service
- Demonstrates a high level of resilience in dealing with challenging situations
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area if required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Haywood
- Job title
- Service Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07734693640
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