Job summary
- Main area
- Secure Care and Offender Health
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 436-7198721
- Employer
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Reaside Clinic
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £46,148 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/06/2025
Employer heading
Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship - Reaside Clinic
Band 7/8a
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
7/8a Practitioner Psychologists (Forensic/Counselling/ Clinical) with Preceptorship
We have vacancies for permanent roles within our team. We are looking for someone who aligns with our values as a team and can also challenge us with compassion to be better.
Within the team, we have a range of experienced staff including Practitioner Psychologists, an Art Therapist, Specialist Psychological Practitioner and Assistant Psychologists. We also support the development of trainee psychological practitioners, who bring with them innovation, ideas and invitations to improve our work. We are down to earth, authentic and open in our communication, bringing in the diverse experiences we hold within the team across gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, amongst other characteristics. Those who have worked here have loved it and others have even returned!
The Practitioner Psychologist vacancy at Reaside Clinic (male medium-secure unit) and Hillis Lodge (male low secure unit) involves working alongside a range of professionals, providing safe, containing and connected psychological advice, care and therapy to help people understand themselves, their mental health and offending behaviour. Part of your role will be to work alongside staff to ensure the service user has the most effective, efficient and relationally connected and contained experience. We value and promote an ethos of service user involvement and co-production and are part of the National Culture of Care Programme.
Main duties of the job
The Practitioner Psychologist role is broad, and we advocate for you to maintain all aspects of your professional role, including service development, research, therapeutic excellence, and leadership as appropriate. You will be encouraged to find your ‘shiny thing’ to help you feel valued, and to promote the creativity and development of the team whilst contributing to the evidence base. We are looking for Registered Practitioner Psychologists who are interested in working in secure environments with highly sensitive content. Whilst secure experience will be highly desirable, we encourage a breadth of experience to help bring new thinking to our services as the culture evolves.
If you are ready for the next stage of your career progression, and able to compassionately challenge systems and staff to be better, hold integrity and also connect with the people around you, we hope you apply. The team at Reaside Clinic and Hillis Lodge will make you feel welcome, connected and push you to excel in ways that you can envision and beyond, so that alongside service users we are proud of what we do.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation. Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
- • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.
- 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 complicated or technical; extremely sensitive and potentially distressing to the recipient; or that is extremely contentious or challenging.
- Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific ’difficult to treat’ groups (e.g. personality disorder, challenging behaviour, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to interact and to build and sustain relationships with people with mental health problems and associated disabilities
- Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice
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
- Victoria Wilkes
- Job title
- Consultant Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 301 4535
- Additional information
We encourage interested applicants to come and visit us to get a feel of the people, environment and dynamics. If you are looking for full or part-time roles, please get in touch and we can see what we can do to make this happen. Come and join us and experience this for yourself.
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