Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – Applied Psychologist
The closing date is 13 May 2026
Are you an enthusiastic and values-driven Applied Psychologist looking to grow your clinical skills within a supportive and innovative service? We are delighted to invite applications for a Band 7 role within our expanding multidisciplinary team.
We welcome applications from Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic Psychologists, including newly qualified practitioners or those due to qualify soon.
As part of our team, you will:
* Provide high-quality psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for service users with complex mental health needs
* Contribute to MDT discussions, offering psychologically informed perspectives
* Have access to excellent supervision structures, reflective practice, and CPD opportunities
* Be part of a friendly, skilled, compassionate team where your ideas and development really matter
* Shape service improvement initiatives and contribute to a culture of learning and innovation
We are committed to helping you develop your specialist areas of interest and offer genuine career progression opportunities.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking someone who is:
* Passionate about delivering evidence-based psychological care
* Skilled in trauma-informed, compassionate, and formulation-led practice
* Confident in working autonomously, while also valuing teamwork
* Committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion
* Keen to contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives
We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and strongly encourage applications from newly qualified psychologists.
About us
At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT), you will join an organisation passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of diverse communities--and equally committed to supporting its staff. The Trust is a place for people who want to make a real difference, offering a friendly, inclusive environment where colleagues feel valued and empowered. The Trust has a strong focus on professional growth, with access to training, supervision, and specialist CPD.
Through the Trust's Work Benefits offer, staff can access:
A wide range of NHS staff discounts
* Health and wellbeing resources
* Local and national benefits as part of the wider NHS employment offer
* Opportunities to be involved in innovative service development projects
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities, Patient Contact
Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources, which may include neuropsychological testing.
Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health/learning conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
Implements a range of specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
Evaluates therapy options and makes decisions about treatment.
To liaise with other professionals working within the NHS, Social Inclusion and Health and the voluntary sector on matters relating to client care that have implications for the service.
Supervisory/Professional Responsibility
Clinical supervision of Assistant Psychologists under the guidance of their Applied Psychologist line manager.
Will hold responsibility and accountability for their own actions, ensuring appropriate support and supervision is sought when required.
To keep abreast of current developments in this field through reading, attendance at appropriate training courses, and a range of other CPD activities, and to ensure that a log is kept of this in line with Psychology and Counselling service and HPC requirements.
Multi-Disciplinary Training and Development
Provides psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other direct care staff in MDT.
Provides clinical supervision to other direct care staff in MDT.
Provides training to other staff in MDT under the guidance of a more senior Applied Psychologist.
Service and Organisational Development
Participate in CQUIN and QIP projects, NICE benchmarking and compliance requirements as required within MDT.
Service Redesign and Cultural Change
Bring an understanding of psychological change processes to own role within MDT.
Service Evaluation and Research
Participate in clinical audits as required within MDT.
Undertake service evaluation and research in MDT.
Person Specification
* Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent) in Applied Psychology as accredited by the BPS including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* HCPC registration as an Applied Psychologist.
* Must have experience/interest in: Working with and assessing children, young people and their families with complex mental health difficulties and neurodevelopmental conditions.
* Risk assessment and risk management.
* Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions relevant to child and adolescent mental health.
* Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities.
* Experience of CBT, DBT, psychodynamic therapy, systemic therapy.
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.
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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