Job summary
- Main area
- Secure Care and Offender Health
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 436-7198761
- Employer
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tamarind Centre
- 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 - Tamarind Centre
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
Tamarind Centre, Birmingham- 0.6 Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologists (Forensic/Counselling/ Clinical) with Preceptorship
Are you compassionate and down to earth? Do you have a passion for social justice? Do you have experience of working in forensic services? This role may be for you.
The Tamarind Centre is a medium secure hospital, serving a diverse population of men with complex mental health needs, risk and offending behaviours. We are looking for a 0.6WTE Permanent Practitioner Psychologist to join us at Band 8A or Band 7 on a Trustwide Preceptorship. We are a down to earth, diverse, flexible and creative team and welcome a similar individual whose values and interests align with the department’s around social justice, intersectionality, compassion and innovation.
The role offers opportunities to enhance your skills across a range of domains. You will deliver evidence- based therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CFT, schema) both in groups and with individuals, and gain experience in facilitating the Life Minus Violence (LMV), high intensity, nationally accredited programme for violence. In combination, we also value insights from practice-based evidence. You will take an active role in supporting the nursing staff through reflective practice and promoting a psychologically informed ward environment. We encourage staff to develop their supervisory and leadership abilities, and these will form part of your core role in supporting assistant psychologists and trainees.
Main duties of the job
Service user involvement and co-production are at the heart of our work. We are currently rolling out trauma informed training across the site for staff and service users. This has been co-produced and co-facilitated with our service users and has been a major milestone for the service. We are passionate about research, innovation and service development, and also encourage staff to integrate their professional interests into their work. Our most recent projects have included examining racial trauma in staff and piloting a culturally informed mental health awareness group. Our interests and ways of working reflect our values in compassionately challenging some of the dominant narratives in systems.
In summary, we are a forward thinking, warm and authentic team. We also pride ourselves in working relationally and in our efforts toward building a sense of community within the Tamarind.
If you are drawn to this role, we strongly encourage you to apply, and if you have questions, please feel free to get in touch with us.
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
- Kimberly Sham Ku
- Job title
- Principal Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 301 0774
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