Band 6 Specialist Psychological Practitioner - Tamarind Centre

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization in Birmingham is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Psychological Practitioner for a 12-month fixed term position. The role focuses on delivering psychological interventions for individuals with personality disorders, enhancing their recovery and wellbeing. Candidates are expected to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to risk assessments. Ideal applicants should have qualifications in teaching, counselling, social work, or nursing, and display resilience and creativity in their practice.

Qualifications

• Assist in delivering individual and group interventions for emotional and relational factors.
• Experience in handling complex mental health problems.
• Ability to support risk assessments and provide psychological advice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychological interventions to improve service users’ recovery.
• Support training and supervision of behavioral management plans.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary collaboration for patient care.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Resilience

Creativity

Innovation

Education

Teaching background

Counselling experience

Social work background

Nursing qualification

CBT Certification

DBT Certification

MBT Certification

Job description

A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.


BAND 6 SPECIALIST PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTITIONER (12-month Fixed Term position) on Laurel Personality Focused Recovery Service, Tamarind Medium Secure Service

We are recruiting for a fixed term position on Laurel: a 12 bedded ward for men with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder. The specialist service offers a range of psychological individual and group interventions to help the men to gain insight into their difficulties and their offending behaviour with the overall aims of alleviating distress for the individual, improving emotional regulation, improving pro-social interactions, and reducing levels of risk’ both to self and others.

Laurel is one of seven wards at The Tamarind Centre, which is an 89-bedded medium-secure service. The psychology team work across all wards and consist of a range of experienced Practitioner Psychologists, Art Therapist, and Assistant Psychologists.

We welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part will be working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues 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 offending behaviour.

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 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.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative Specialist Psychological Practitioner interested in working with people with complex presentations, encompassing risk, personality difficulties, and mental health. The service has identified resources for continuing professional development, and excellent multi-model supervision structures. Ideally post holders to have a background in some of the following: teaching, counselling, social work, family work, nursing, registered therapists (CBT, DBT or MBT).

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.

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.


This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 2025