Job summary
- Main area
- Neuropsychology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 820-7634379-ASR
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Moseley Hall Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Preceptorship Band 8b to 8C Clinical Psychologist in Neuropsychology
Band 8b
Job overview
Preceptorship Opportunity: 8B to 8C in Clinical Neuropsychology
Those seeking to work less than 37.5 hours per week may be considered and are encouraged to contact us for an informal discussion.
An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a experienced and dynamic Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to join our neuropsychology and rehabilitation services based at Moseley Hall Hospital in Birmingham.
This is a preceptorship opportunity, with suitable candidates joining the organisation as an 8B Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Neuropsychology, with a supported preceptorship into an 8C Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist position once appropriate competencies have been achieved.
The successful applicant will have substantial experience in Neuropsychology, have completed the underpinning knowledge component of training towards eligibility for the Specialist Register for Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN), and have demonstrable leadership and management experience relevant to this Band 8b level position. They will also have a drive and willingness to achieve clinical, managerial and leadership competencies to enable progression to an 8C post within an agreed timeframe. This will include obtaining qualifications which confer eligibility for the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Main duties of the job
Our services include Level 1 Inpatient Neurorehabilitation, Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation, Community and Outpatient rehabilitation services, and a specialist vocational pathway. It is an exciting time to join our growing services as we further develop our teams and the model of Clinical Neuropsychology within the Trust.
The postholder will join a friendly and dynamic team of psychological professionals, working alongside other psychologist colleagues to support the systematic governance and effective development and delivery of neuropsychology services. Leadership, supervision and management in the Neuropsychology service are key aspects of this role alongside provision of clinical services.
Duties Include
To deliver a Clinical Psychology Service commensurate with a post graduate doctoral level of training and further specialist training and experience.
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to adults with acquired brain injuries and other neurological conditions.
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To support proposals and implementation policy changes within the area served by the service. To be accountable for the direct delivery of clinical services to clients, their families and carers.
Line management of Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham is a vibrant, rich, ethnically diverse city, with a large population of young people. Join Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) where more than 5000 members of staff work across Birmingham and the West Midlands to deliver a wide range of community and specialist healthcare services. BCHC delivers over a hundred clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. This includes services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Our range of healthcare service provision within the ASR Division also offers opportunities to develop clinical leadership skills and be involved with clinical projects and pathway development. The Psychology Service offers support and close links with other psychologists through facilitated reflective practice groups, CPD events and team meetings. There are good links with the local DClinPsy training courses and the MSCi pathway at Birmingham and Coventry Universities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details please see attached job description.
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 neuropsychological 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.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological and neuropsychological 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 provide line management where agreed and required for clinical psychologists. This will be in agreement with the Divisional Lead Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.
To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing
To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to be independently mobile to travel across the Trust area if required
Qualifications
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.
- Postgraduate diploma or equivalent accounting for the underpinning knowledge component of specialist training in Clinical Neuropsychology
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
- SRCN Eligibility or willing to work towards through completion of practice component of relevant training. (This post may include preceptorship towards a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychology post requiring SRCN eligibility).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant 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.
- Significant experience working with adults with ABI and other neurological conditions and complex psychological problems.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clincial psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training and further post qualification study.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment commensurate with doctoral level training, including specialist clinical interviewing, behavioural observation, complex psychometric testing and specialist neuropsychological testing.
- Able to use psychometric tests and psychological equipment in accordance with standardised timing, stimulus presentation and response monitoring requirements.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to empathically, sensitively and effectively communicate clinical and condition related information to clients, their families, carers and professional colleagues (within and outside the NHS) that is extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging
- Skills commensurate with doctoral level training in the formulation of problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
- 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
- Demostrates a high level of resilience in dealing with challenging situations
- Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives.
- Ability to work independently, reliably, consistently and with initiative in circumstances where has discretion to work within defined team/Trust policies, service principles, professional codes of practice and other appropriate parameters and to determine how objectives agreed with manger are best achieved.
- Adaptable and able to work flexibly when required (e.g. in the light of changing service priorities).
- Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure
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
- Dr Christian Holmes
- Job title
- Divisional Lead Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01214666143
- Additional information
Pre-application discussions are welcomed and strongly encouraged.
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