Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Reaside Clinic

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Part time

Job summary

A mental health care provider in Birmingham is seeking a BAND 8B PRACTITIONER PSYCHOLOGIST to join their Reaside Clinic team. This permanent, part-time role focuses on delivering clinical interventions and contributing to the overall psychological therapies strategy. Candidates should have a strong background in psychology and an interest in high-complexity presentations. The position offers opportunities for research, service development, and continuing professional development.

Benefits

Continuing professional development

Supervision structures

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical interventions and offer a specialist psychological view of service user recovery.
• Contribute to the delivery of the Divisional Psychological Therapies strategy.
• Liaise with stakeholders, develop and implement a responsive strategy.

Job description

Job summary

BAND 8B PRACTITIONER PSYCHOLOGIST - REASIDE CLINIC

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) invite applications specifically for a 0.6 PERMANENT ROLE for REASIDE CLINIC, Rubery, Birmingham - a 92 bedded, medium secure inpatient service for adult males, who are experiencing severe mental health problems that have often also had a component or history of violence.

The psychological therapies team consists of a range of experienced Practitioner Psychologists, Art Therapist, Specialist Psychological Practitioner and Assistant and Trainee Psychologists.

This role will include inputting into a multi-disciplinary clinical team to ensure good psychological treatment is formulation driven and aligned with Divisional and Trust objectives and values. You will deliver clinical interventions and offer a specialist psychological view of service user recovery. A large focus of the role will also include contributing to the delivery of the Divisional Psychological Therapies strategy. Your role will be to liaise with stakeholders, develop and implement a strategy alongside colleagues that is responsive to the professional and interpersonal challenges of working within forensic services with people who have a complex history. You will be supported across both sites in this work with a team of psychologists who are keen to ensure that the experience of working in secure care and offender health is rewarding as much as it is challenging.

Main duties of the job

The role also encompasses opportunities for research, service development, training and evaluation. There will also be line management and supervisory responsibilities with this role. We will also work with you to find your 'shiny thing' to ensure you develop as you wish in line with service needs.

We are looking for enthusiastic, robust, resilient, creative, and innovative 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.

Whilst secure experience is preferred, we encourage a breadth of experience to help bring new thinking to our services as the culture evolves. If you are ready for the next stage of your career progression, and able to compassionately challenge systems and staff to be better, hold integrity and also connect with the people around them, we hope that you speak to us and apply.

Our services are regional and therefore may require a degree of travel and working across locations.

About us

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.

Details Date posted

01 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

436-7358072

Job locations

Reaside Clinic

Birmingham Great Park

Birmingham

B45 9BE

Job description Job responsibilities

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

Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people

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Job description Job responsibilities

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

Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people

https://vimeo.com/benthompsonfilms/psychologyrecruitment?share=copy

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• The Graduate Basis for Registration (further to completion of an honours degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, or, in the case of courses that are not accredited or where the first degree is not in psychology, by completion of the Society's Qualifying examination, or completion of a Society accredited Conversion Course).

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more highly specialist areas of psychological practice / therapy.

Experience Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a registered practitioner psychologist for a minimum of 4 years post qualification, with a minimum of at least 2 years at the Senior (highly specialist) level.
• Experience of highly 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, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
• Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Clinical Psychology Training Course criteria

Desirable

• Experience of the application of clinical forensic psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' and or 'hard to reach' groups and clients.
• Experience of safeguarding and risk management across several agencies, including appropriately escalating concerns

Skills Essential

• Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups
• Highly developed skills, commensurate with doctoral level training and post qualification training and experience, in the formulation of highly complex problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with highly complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.

Desirable

• In depth knowledge of information governance legislation and information sharing practices across agencies

Personal Essential

• Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
• Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure.

Other Essential

• 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

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• The Graduate Basis for Registration (further to completion of an honours degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, or, in the case of courses that are not accredited or where the first degree is not in psychology, by completion of the Society's Qualifying examination, or completion of a Society accredited Conversion Course).

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more highly specialist areas of psychological practice / therapy.

Experience Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a registered practitioner psychologist for a minimum of 4 years post qualification, with a minimum of at least 2 years at the Senior (highly specialist) level.
• Experience of highly 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, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity.
• Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Clinical Psychology Training Course criteria

Desirable

• Experience of the application of clinical forensic psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working therapeutically with 'difficult to treat' and or 'hard to reach' groups and clients.
• Experience of safeguarding and risk management across several agencies, including appropriately escalating concerns

Skills Essential

• Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups
• Highly developed skills, commensurate with doctoral level training and post qualification training and experience, in the formulation of highly complex problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with highly complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity.

Desirable

• In depth knowledge of information governance legislation and information sharing practices across agencies

Personal Essential

• Is a 'team player' and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives
• Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure.

Other Essential

• 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Reaside Clinic

Birmingham Great Park

Birmingham

B45 9BE

Employer's website

https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Reaside Clinic

Birmingham Great Park

Birmingham

B45 9BE

Employer's website

https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)