Band 7-8a Practitioner Psychologist - Preceptorship

Birmingham Community Health Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Minworth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust is offering opportunities for Band 7/8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists to join our neurodevelopmental pathway within the Children and Families Division. The post offers potential career progression through a Preceptorship development programme for newly or recently qualified psychologists.

You will work in a specialist multi-disciplinary team delivering neurodevelopmental assessments, providing consultation to other

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical neurodevelopmental assessments for individuals, groups and families within the neurodevelopmental pathway.
• Provide consultation to other professionals and collaborate within a multidisciplinary team.
• Develop interests in inclusion services, 0-19 provision and palliative care while contributing to compassionate, inclusive care.

Job description

We have exciting opportunities for either newly or recently qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists looking for a post with potential career progression to join our team under a Preceptorship development programme. We would also welcome applications from Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists. Based on relevant experience, these posts can be offered at a Band 8a or band 7 Preceptorship arrangement.

We are looking for creative, innovative and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists to deliver clinical services within our neurodevelopmental pathway, Children and Families Division. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary team and if you are passionate about developing services and delivering high quality input to neurodiverse people then we would love to hear from you.

Providing clinical services citywide, you will work with the multidisciplinary team to deliver specialist psychological neurodevelopmental assessments for individuals, groups and families as well as consultation to other professionals. You will have opportunities to develop a special interest in other parts of our division for example, within inclusion services, 0-19 provision and palliative care. We pride ourselves on our compassionate and inclusive ways of working with a strong agenda around equality and diversity at work and have a focus on staff wellbeing, both for ourselves as a psychology team, but also for our colleagues, clients and staff teams that we work with.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.