Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Birmingham seeks an experienced Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist to lead high-quality mental health care at Parkview Clinic. Responsibilities include clinical leadership and managing psychological provisions for adolescents. Candidates must have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and strong teamwork skills. This full-time or part-time position offers NHS benefits and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme and annual leave entitlement

CPD opportunities

Access to wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experienced Qualified Clinical/Forensic Psychologist eligible for chartered status.
• Highly specialist skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents, and young adults.
• Post-doctoral training in specified areas of psychological practice.

Responsibilities

• Support effective psychologically informed clinical leadership.
• Manage and supervise clinical staff.
• Contribute to clinical governance and service improvements.

Skills

Experience with mental health needs

Clinical supervision skills

Strong teamwork abilities

Education

Doctorate in Clinical/Forensic Psychology

HCPC registration

Tools

NHS systems (RIO)

Microsoft Office

Job description

Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

The closing date is 16 November 2025

Are you an experienced Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist passionate about leading on the delivery of high quality mental health care? Become part of our dedicated team at Parkview Clinic, a newly refurbished regional inpatient CAMHS facility in Moseley (Birmingham), surrounded by a serene woodland walk.

Rated 'Good' by CQC (2024), Parkview comprises three units for young people aged 11-17. Ashfield: an 8-bed general adolescent unit with seclusion facility. Heathlands: a 14-bed general adolescent unit for various mental health difficulties. Irwin: a 12-bed specialist eating disorder service. You will collaborate strategically, operationally and clinically with a multidisciplinary leadership team and a clinical MDT comprising doctors, family therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, nurses, social workers, and support staff.

We have an 8B position requiring strategic, operational and clinical expertise to achieve the service vision and ambitions. The post-holder will be a senior leader in the service as well as providing clinical leadership for psychological input to Heathlands. The role can be taken full time or part-time.

Upto 1wte post is available; part-time working considered. Informal discussions/ visits welcomed. Contact: Dr. Lisa Walton or Dr Johanna Vine, 0121 333 9955 Email: [e-mail]

Main duties of the job

Your role responsibilities...

Supporting the Head of Psychological Therapies to provide effective psychologically informed clinical leadership and the delivery and development of evidence-based psychological therapies at the Regional Inpatient CAMHS unit, in a trauma informed, anti-racism, autism-acceptance, recovery culture.

Line manage and supervise clinical staff.

Be the Lead Psychologist for a designated ward responsible for the delivery and organisation of psychological provision; clinical and non-clinical.

Work within the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Consult Team (training to Consult level will be provided as part of this role).

Across service leadership, contributing to clinical governance, the evaluation of outcomes for children and families, and supporting meaningful service improvements aligned with national and regional priorities.

Provide post-incident team reflections, reflective practice, supervision, training and ward learning forums.

Our working hours are 37.5, Monday to Friday.

About us

Parkview Clinic is situated in Moseley and a short distance from King\'s Heath high street. The area boasts excellent shops/cafes and transport links, including multiple bus routes and the upcoming reopening of King\'s Heath railway station.

What we’ll offer you

• NHS pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Post-event team reflect service, wellbeing hub and massage chair
• CPD opportunities, including a range of exclusive national training in therapeutic expertise/leadership/education and service development
• 'Parkview Council' a staff-led initiative promoting staff psychological, and physical wellbeing
• Free onsite parking (subject to availability) with electric car charging points and access to a discounted cafeteria with breakout space
• Access to the University of Birmingham Family Therapy training clinic onsite

Birmingham Women\'s and Children\'s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to providing the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

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, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

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 Children\'s 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Experienced Qualified Clinical/Forensic Psychologist eligible for chartered status
• HCPC registered with Doctorate in Clinical/Forensic Psychology
• Highly specialist skills in meeting the needs of children, adolescents and young adults with highly complex mental health needs
• Post qualification training leading to highly developed specialist knowledge of issues relevant to population e.g. DBT, EMDR
• Risk management training for those with highly complex mental health problems

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuropsychology or two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Highly developed knowledge across relevant clinical areas e.g. working with personality difficulties and complex risk of harms, complex neurodiverse presentations co-occurring with mental health difficulties.
• Significant experience of providing clinical supervision and consultation, with psychologists and other professional groups.
• Experience of contributing to planning and evaluation of services and innovation and improvement
• Well organised and an effective team player
• Experience of teaching, training, staff support, research
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Significant experience of assessing and treating children, young people and/or young adults with complex mental health needs
• Significant experience of assessing and managing risk clients that involves judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Well-motivated to be part of Inpatient CAMHS. Enthusiasm for working with this client group and their families.
• Skills and knowledge of using NHS systems, such as RIO, Microsoft office for use with audits, research and presentations to wider audiences

Other Requirements

• Able to work in dynamic fast paced environment

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.

Birmingham Women\'s and Children\'s NHS Foundation Trust