Principal Psychologist (Clinical or Forensic)

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A local support organization in Birmingham is seeking a Principal Psychologist to lead a team addressing harmful sexual behaviour in youth. The role requires significant experience with children and young people, including conducting assessments and delivering interventions. Successful candidates will join a diverse and effective team, contributing to vital services in a multi-agency context. Training and support will be provided, with opportunities for further professional development.

Benefits

Access to training

Clinical supervision

Peer support opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with harmful sexual behaviour.
• Post qualification training in trauma informed approaches is desirable.
• Experience in supporting others in trauma informed care is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Carry out specialist assessments and deliver psychological interventions.
• Lead on risk screening and management planning.
• Provide psychological consultation to the professional network.

Skills

Experience with children and young people

Multi-agency and partnership working

Psychological assessments and interventions

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

Healthy, Safe, Behaviours (HSB) Team – Supporting young people with Harmful Sexual Behaviour £52,431.00 to £64,811.00: (with market supplement) up to £72,311.00 (depending on experience)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Principal Psychologist to join our Healthy Safe Behaviours Team (HSB). This newly configured service supports children and young people (7 to 17 years), open to Birmingham Children’s Trust, who present with harmful sexual behaviour. The team adopts a multi-agency approach, supporting Early Help, Safeguarding, Children in Care and Youth Justice Services; delivering bespoke and tailored interventions and programmes of education and support.

We are looking for a Principal Psychologist, with significant experience working with children and young people with presentations relating to harmful sexual behaviour, offending, and who may also have histories of early adversity, childhood trauma and/or significant attachment disruption. This new role will work alongside the operational team manager to provide clinical leadership for the ongoing development and delivery of this service in accordance with the evidence base and current best practice guidance.

The successful candidate will:

• Carry out specialist assessments, formulation and deliver psychological interventions to children, young people, families and/or caregivers. They will lead on the development of risk screening and management planning and support the escalation of mental health concerns where appropriate. A significant proportion of this role will include working with the professional network around the child/young person; providing psychological consultation, developing shared formulations of complex needs/presentations, contributing to safety plans, teaching and training and clinical supervision. The role will also have opportunities for service development, innovative and creative ways of working, routine service evaluation and research as required.

Post qualification training in trauma informed approaches and experience in supporting others in trauma informed care (or enthusiasm to develop this knowledge/skills) is desirable. This work can be pressured and emotionally challenging at times, but can also be very rewarding.

Birmingham is a ‘super diverse’ city and a broad range of diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds represented in our workforce and in those we support.

If you are a team player, with strengths in multi-agency and partnership working, who is passionate and experienced in developing and delivering high quality and effective services for this population, we would love to hear from you. We will provide you with access to training, regular clinical, professional and management supervision, and on-going support. You will also have opportunities to link with other psychologists across the Trust for peer support.

In order to be considered for this role please include a supporting statement and CV demonstrating how you meet the competencies required as outlined in the attached person specification.

For more information, please contact Lee Vince, TESS & HSB Head of Service on [e-mail] or DrMarie Kershaw, Consultant Clinical Psychologist: [e-mail]

Closing date: Sunday 28th September 2025

Interviews will take place on: Monday 13 October 2025

We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection. This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.

This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham so you must reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham and have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.