Bank Level 7 Practitioner Psychologist

Birmingham Community Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Practitioner Psychologist to join the Neurodevelopmental Hub within the Children and Families Division for a bank position on Band 7. You will work autonomously providing specialist assessments and interventions for children with developmental needs across the Birmingham area.

Applicants must have doctoral-level training in clinical or applied psychology and current HCPC registration, with the ability to consult families, carers

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS.
• Current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessments for children referred to the service.
• Develop complex psychological formulations and individualized treatment plans.
• Deliver evidence-based psychological interventions for children, families and groups.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment planning, progress monitoring and discharge.
• Provide specialist advice, consultation and guidance to multidisciplinary colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to risk assessment and care planning across the child’s wider network.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment

Communication skills

Consultation skills

Neurodevelopment knowledge

Clinical reasoning

Education

Postgraduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology

HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist

Job description

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a Practitioner Psychologist to join the Children and Families Division, working within the Neurodevelopmental Hub. This is a Bank level 7 bank-only position, providing specialist psychological services to children with developmental and neurodevelopmental needs across the Birmingham area.

Working autonomously within professional guidelines and service procedures, you will undertake specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention. You will also provide expert advice and consultation to families, carers, colleagues and professionals from partner services involved in a child's care.

Applicants must have postgraduate doctoral-level training in clinical or applied psychology, accredited by the British Psychological Society, and current HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Main duties of the job

• You will provide specialist psychological assessments for children referred to the service, drawing upon information from psychometric and neuropsychological assessments, rating scales, observations, interviews and other relevant sources.
• You will develop psychological formulations and deliver appropriate evidence-based interventions for children, families, carers and groups. You will evaluate treatment options, monitor progress and exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment planning and discharge.
• The role includes providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues and other agencies. You will contribute to risk assessment and management, care planning and reviews, and may act as care co-ordinator where appropriate.
• You will also contribute to teaching, training, supervision, audit, research, service evaluation and the ongoing development of psychologically informed practice across the service.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

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.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Job details

• Date posted: 23 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £26.66 an hour
• Contract: Bank
• Working pattern: Flexible working
• Reference number: 820-5475760-NOV
• Job locations: Various, Birmingham, B74BN, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Undertake specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessments using appropriate clinical tools, observations, interviews and psychometric measures.
• Develop complex psychological formulations and individualised treatment or management plans.
• Deliver and evaluate evidence-based psychological interventions for children, families, carers and groups.
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment, treatment planning, progress monitoring and discharge.
• Provide specialist advice, consultation and guidance to multidisciplinary colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to psychologically informed care planning, formulation and treatment across the child's wider support network.
• Undertake psychological risk assessments and contribute to effective risk-management planning.
• Act as care co-ordinator where appropriate, initiating and reviewing care plans with children, carers and relevant professionals.
• Communicate complex and sensitive clinical information clearly and compassionately.
• Work effectively with children who have developmental, neurodevelopmental, learning or communication needs.
• Contribute to the supervision of assistant practitioners, research psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists.
• Support the teaching and training of psychology colleagues and other professional groups.
• Participate in research, clinical audit, service evaluation and service-development projects.
• Maintain accurate clinical records, electronic information and professional reports.
• Contribute to operational policy development and the monitoring and evaluation of psychology services.
• Maintain professional development through supervision, appraisal, reflective practice and relevant CPD.
• Work in accordance with safeguarding, confidentiality, infection prevention, health and safety, equality and professional practice requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications/training

Essential

• Post Graduate Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, / applied psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills/knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment (including psychometrics such as ADOS), intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Knowledge of typical and atypical child development including neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD/ASD
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, children with additional learning disabilities or difficulties etc).
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children

Desirable

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Other job requirements

Essential

• Is able and willing to move around the city.
• Must have a full driving license and access to a vehicle
• Is able to carry a variety of equipment between locations safely.

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.