Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust in Birmingham is looking for a Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join the Neurodevelopmental Pathway (Autism Assessment Service) specialist psychology team. The role involves assessing children with neurodevelopmental needs across the Birmingham catchment and working within a multidisciplinary team.

You will supervise and support colleagues, contribute to research and audits, and help develop policy within the service.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment of children using diverse data sources including assessments, self-reported measures and observations.
• Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management based on a conceptual framework.
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for children, carers, families and groups across teams; refine formulations as needed.
• Utilise knowledge of SEND processes and education agenda in practice.

Skills

Specialist assessment

Supervision

Research & audit

Policy development

Job description

Band 8a Senior Practitioner Psychologist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Company: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join our Neurodevelopmental Pathway (Autism Assessment Service) specialist psychology service. The role will involve assessing children presenting with neurodevelopmental needs across all sectors of care within the Birmingham catchment area.

The post holder will be part of the multidisciplinary team in the Neurodevelopmental Hubs and liaise closely with colleagues in education.

They will also supervise and support the psychological assessments and therapy provided by other psychologists and others who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

They will support a culture of research and utilise research skills for audit, policy and service developments and propose and implement policy changes within the Service and the broader multidisciplinary team. They will also be highly visible and, accessible and a figure to whom staff, patients and their families, can turn to for assistance, advice and support.

• 1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of children based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological assessment, self-reported measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, family members and others involved in the child’s care.
• 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child’s psychological problems. This is to be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficiency, across the full range of care settings.
• 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for children, carers, families and groups within and across teams. This would involve adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• 4. To use highly developed specialist knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices including that of SEND processes and education agenda.

See attached Job Description for details of main duties.

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham is a vibrant, rich, ethnically diverse city, with a large population of young people. Join Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) where more than 5000 members of staff work across Birmingham and the West Midlands to deliver a wide range of community and specialist healthcare services. BCHC delivers over a hundred clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. This includes 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.

Our range of healthcare service provision within the C&F Division also offers opportunities todevelop clinical leadership skillsand be involved with clinical projects and pathway development. The Psychology Service offers support and close links with other psychologists through facilitated reflective practice groups, CPD events and team meetings. There are good links with the local DClinPsy training courses and the MSCi pathway at Birmingham and Coventry Universities.

• 1. To provide specialist psychological assessment of children based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological assessment, self-reported measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, family members and others involved in the child’s care.
• 2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child’s psychological problems. This is to be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficiency, across the full range of care settings.
• 3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for children, carers, families and groups within and across teams. This would involve adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• 4. To use highly developed specialist knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices including that of SEND processes and education agenda.

See attached Job description and person specification attached.

This advert closes on Tuesday 20 Oct 2026

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust