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4x 8A Practitioner Psychologists, with Preceptorship across Adult and Youth services (Permanent) 1x 8A Practitioner Psychologist in Women’s services (Fixed Term Contract for Maternity Cover; also open to Band 7).

We are recruiting to a number of Practitioner Psychologist posts within our Secure Care and Offender Health (SCOH) Directorate.  The posts advertised are often split across services within the directorate, allowing individuals to develop a broad set of skills and gain valuable clinical experience.  We are open to working with successful candidates to offer full-time posts in particular services if service need allows. We welcome applications from people who are seeking part time opportunities also.

We encourage you to contact us to discuss the vacancies and visit the services that interest you. We currently have vacancies across the services listed below,

Reaside Clinic, male medium secure inpatient unit, based in Rubery, Birmingham.

Hillis Lodge, male low secure inpatient unit, based in Rubery, Birmingham.

AFFIRM, Offender Personality Disorder Pathway services, based across various probation/prison sites in the West Midlands/Warwickshire.

FIRST, forensic community service for adults, one post based at Rubery, Birmingham; one post based within St Andrews Hospital, Stirchley, Birmingham.

Youth FIRST, forensic community service for children/adolescents based in Erdington, Birmingham.

Ardenleigh, women’s secure inpatient services, based in Erdington, Birmingham.

Main duties of the job

One of the joys of working in our service is the access to model-specific supervision in addition to individual, management and group reflective spaces.  Model specific supervision includes CBT (including ACT), CAT, DBT, EMDR, and CFT.  This offers individuals the opportunity to hone their therapeutic skills and develop practice relating to service need.  As a forensic service, we balance interventions for mental health with offending needs, incorporating structured clinical judgement tools as routine practice within our work. 

We value the breadth of skills that Practitioner Psychologists bring, therefore alongside your therapeutic work, you will be supported to develop service provision using quality improvement (QI) and research methodology.  

The people we work with have often experienced significant difficulties throughout their lives.  We work collaboratively alongside a multidisciplinary team and partner organisations, to ensure that these factors are held in mind.  Balancing the needs of the service user is central to our work whilst also ensuring our staff are supported and feel valued. 

The roles can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur.  Working within SCOH is challenging, yet rewarding as together we support people to lead more fulfilling, safer lives. We welcome you to apply to be part of our services in delivering excellent, innovative NHS care.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, however all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.

Please note, if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust.

All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.

If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The subscription will cost you £13 a year but the Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 1. It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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