Job summary
- Main area
- Secure Care and Offender Health
- Grade
- Band 7/8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 436-7495339
- Employer
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ardenleigh
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £47,810 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/11/2025
Employer heading
Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship - OPD Pathway
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
1 1.0 WTE Permanent vacancy for Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist in CAMEO, Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Service, based at HMP Foston Hall
· 1.0 WTE Permanent vacancy for Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist in AFFIRM, Community CORE OM, Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Service, based in the West Midlands
***We would consider full and part-time roles, with candidates working in one of these services, or being split across both services***
· 0.8 WTE 12-month fixed term (maternity cover) Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist vacancy in AFFIRM, Community CORE OM Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Service
CAMEO is a specialist, intensive day treatment personality disorder service for high-risk women with complex needs. The service offers a range of psychological interventions, aiming to alleviate distress for the individual, improve emotional regulation and reduce levels of risk.
AFFIRM are a team of committed psychologists working in partnership with specialist probation practitioners to provide consultancy, formulation, training, and supervision to community probation staff throughout the Black Country, Birmingham, Coventry and Warwickshire. The team support staff to work with complex, high-risk people on probation with trauma histories and personality difficulties in a psychologically informed way, with the aim of building robust therapeutic relationships, increasing engagement, and reducing the risk of future harm to self and/or others.
Main duties of the job
Both services sit within the Secure Care and Offender Health directorate of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust, meaning that candidates would be part of, and supported by, a large group of psychological practitioners working across NHS and Criminal Justice System settings.
For both posts, we welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of services. We are looking for people from a range of diverse backgrounds with an interest in working with and enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences and have a history of offending behaviour.
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.
Please note this advert is part of a broader recruitment drive in BSMHFT Secure Care and Offender Health. If you are applying for more than one post, please make this clear in your personal statement.
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
- Sarah Drumm
- Job title
- Admin Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 301 3110
- Additional information
For informal enquiries, please email Sarah Drumm, Administration Manager, ([email protected]) who will direct your enquiry accordingly.
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