Bank Level 8A Senior Practitioner Psychologist

Birmingham Community Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Bank Senior Practitioner Psychologist to deliver high‑quality psychological assessment and intervention across Birmingham's neurodevelopmental hub. You will provide leadership, consultation and supervision within a multidisciplinary team.

The post requires HCPC registration and doctoral-level training in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology, with flexible, zero-hours / bank arrangements to support children and

Qualifications

• Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist and eligible to practice in the UK.
• Experience in neurodevelopmental and complex mental health work with children.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for children with neurodevelopmental needs.
• Formulate, implement and evaluate evidence-based psychological treatments.
• Lead MDT meetings and provide supervision to junior colleagues and trainees.
• Deliver consultation, risk assessment and care planning across services.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audit and service development.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Clinical assessment

Intervention planning

Education

Doctoral-level training in Clinical Psychology

HCPC Registration

Tools

ADOS-2

ADI-R

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Bank Senior Practitioner Psychologist to join the Children & Families Division within our Neurodevelopmental Hub. This is a bank-only, zero-hours position, offering flexible working opportunities to support children and young people with neurodevelopmental needs across Birmingham.

As a senior member of the multidisciplinary team, you will deliver highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention services while providing leadership, consultation and supervision to psychology colleagues and wider clinical teams. You will play a key role in service development, research, clinical governance and the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care.

The successful candidate will hold HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist and have doctoral-level training in Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society.

Main duties of the job

You will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention for children presenting with neurodevelopmental and complex mental health needs, using a wide range of evidence-based approaches and specialist assessment tools.

Working autonomously, you will formulate and implement treatment plans, undertake risk assessments, contribute to multidisciplinary care planning and provide expert consultation to professionals across health, education and partner agencies.

As a senior psychologist you will facilitate Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, where diagnostic decisions are reached in collaboration with clinical colleagues. You will be responsible for reviewing assessment information, formulating and then facilitating diagnostic discussions in line with NICE guidelines.

You will supervise practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and research staff, supporting professional development and the delivery of psychologically informed care throughout the service.

The role also includes leading service evaluation, audit and research activity, contributing to operational policy development and supporting the continuous improvement of neurodevelopmental services.

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 responsibilities

• Deliver highly specialist psychological assessments for children with neurodevelopmental and complex mental health needs.


• Formulate, implement and evaluate evidence-based psychological interventions for children, families, carers and groups.


• Undertake specialist psychometric, neuropsychological and behavioural assessments, including tools such as ADOS-2 and ADI-R where appropriate.


• Provide highly specialist psychological consultation, advice and support to multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies.


• Undertake risk assessment and contribute to effective risk management planning.


• Act as care co-ordinator where appropriate, ensuring coordinated and effective multidisciplinary care.


• Communicate highly complex and sensitive information to children, families, carers and professionals.


• Supervise practitioner psychologists, assistant psychologists, trainee psychologists and research staff.


• Deliver teaching, training, consultation and professional development activities across services.


• Contribute to research, clinical audit, service evaluation and quality-improvement initiatives.


• Lead and support service development projects and contribute to operational policy development.


• Promote best practice, professional standards and clinical governance within psychology services.


• Participate in staff recruitment, supervision, appraisal and development activities.


• Maintain accurate clinical records, reports and professional documentation in accordance with HCPC, BPS and Trust standards.


• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, safeguarding requirements, neurodevelopmental practice and psychological interventions.


• Work collaboratively with health, education and community partners to improve outcomes for children and young people.

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


• Registered with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Desirable

• 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.


• Experience of supervising other psychologists, assistant psychologists, therapists and trainee psychologists.

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. 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.

UK Registration

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Lead for Temporary Staffing, Oliver Dhillon, [e-mail]

Closing date:

05 November 2026

Reference number:

820-5475760-NOV