Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Bank level 7
- Contract
- Bank: 0 months
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 820-5475760-NOV
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £26.66 per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 05/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Bank level 7 Practitioner Psychologist
Bank level 7
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
IMPORTANT
- Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Oliver Dhillon
- Job title
- Recruitment Lead for Temporary Staffing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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