Clinical Psychologist

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's health trust in the UK is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join their Health in Mind team in Birmingham. The role involves providing clinical psychology and neuropsychology input, focusing on neuropsychological assessments within the Haemoglobinopathy service. Candidates must possess a Clinical Psychology Doctorate and be eligible for chartered status, with experience working with children and families. This position offers an opportunity to collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and contribute to compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Must have a Clinical Psychology Doctorate and be eligible for chartered status.
• Experience in clinical psychology with children and families.
• Knowledge of working with minority ethnic children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical psychology support and undertake neuropsychological assessments in the Haemoglobinopathy service.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team members on care planning.

Skills

Experience with children/young people and families

Experience of neuropsychological assessments

Communicating effectively

Good report writing skills

Collaborative work within multi-disciplinary teams

Education

Clinical Psychology Doctorate

Qualified Clinical Psychologist eligible for chartered status

Job description

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 27 January 2026

The post holder will be based within the Health in Mind team, which is a multi-disciplinary team including clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, liaison psychiatrist and learning disability nurses. The post holder will provide specialist clinical psychology and neuropsychology input as part事实上写作……服务，并与多学科团队的其他成员合作提供心理学视角。

Main холод份 duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to the桌a provision of clinical psychology support and undertake neuropsychological assessments in the Haemoglobinopathy service, with a particular focus on Sickle Cell Disease. The post holder will provide psychological perspectives to psychological care planning in collaboration with other members of a multi-disciplinary team.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neonatal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women איז یک یکی of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Parkview Clinic is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) facility in Moseley, for young people aged 11-18 years who require admission due to significant psychiatric difficulties.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gendermandu, disability, race carrying racial…

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust. When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable). Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Clinical Psychology Doctorate
• Qualified Clinical Psychologist eligible for chartered status

KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Experience of kunnu in clinical psychology with children/young people and families
• Experience of neuropsychological assessments
• Knowledge of working with minority ethnic children and young people
• Supervised practice in paediatric neuropsychology
• Experience of working in an acute psychology setting
• Experience of working in an physical health psychology setting

Professional Knowledge

• Experience and confident in teaching and/or training
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services

Personal

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Good report writing skills
• Interest in developing skills in child paediatric psychology.
• Motivated to work collaboratively with other professionals and within multi-disciplinary teams
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Essential I/A

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 out for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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