Job overview

BSMHFT invite applications from enthusiastic, innovative, and resilient professionals to join our expanding Secure Care and Offender Health Services (SCOH), to the role of a Specialist Psychological Practitioner. 

We are recruiting for a  permanent vacancy at CAMEO, a Personality Disorder service based at HMP Foston Hall. 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. CAMEO is part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPD) and is a partnership service between BSMHFT, HMPPS and Anawim, a third sector Women’s charity.  Our services are passionate about providing person centered, trauma informed care, and providing the best possible care experience for our service users.

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 the service.  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.

Main duties of the job

Post holders, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, will assist in delivering a range of individual and group interventions addressing emotional, behavioural and relational factors in order to improve service users’ recovery and wellbeing. The post holders will support the direct assessment, formulation, and delivery of interventions to address the full range of complex forensic mental health problems. They will also contribute to the production of risk assessments and be key in providing psychologically informed advice and support for those directly involved in the care of the individual. They would also support training, supervision, and evaluation of the delivery of individual behavioural management plans, risk management activity and service user involvement. The post holders should have some experience in providing some supervision to a staff group and be able to identify and co-ordinate the need for systemic support. Ideally, post holders may also have a background in some of the following: teaching, counselling, social work, family work or nursing.

 We are looking for enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative Specialist Psychological Practitioners interested in working with people who have complex presentations, encompassing risk, personality difficulties and mental health. The service has identified resources supporting continuing professional development, including excellent multi-model supervision structures.

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.