Job vacancy: Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham

Job summary

Main area

Psychology

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time
Part time
Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (Part time applications are considered -25 plus hours)

Job ref

284-25-7415297-MHSCM

Employer: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Parkview
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/09/2025 23:59

Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

Detailed job description and main 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

Essential criteria

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 eg DBT, EMDR,

Desirable criteria

Formal Leadership/Management training
Risk management training for those with highly complex mental health problems

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

Essential criteria

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 cooccurring 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

Essential criteria

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

Essential criteria

Able to work in dynamic fast paced environment

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.

Documents to download

8b Principal Psychologist JD &PS (PDF, 387.3KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Dr Lisa Walton
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 0121 333 9955
Additional information: We welcome/recommend conversations and visits prior to interview. We are proud of what we deliver and would love to introduce you to the team and show you what we do.

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Job summary

Employer heading

Principal Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

Essential criteria

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential criteria

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

Documents to download

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