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Band 7/8a clinical or counselling psychologist - solihull hub cmhts

Solihull
Integrated Care System
Counselling psychologist
Posted: 26 July
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Band 7/8a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Solihull Hub CMHTs

The closing date is 07 August 2025

We have an exciting vacancy for a Clinical or Counselling Practitioner Psychologist within our Integrated Community Care and Recovery (ICCR) Services working with adults with mental health difficulties. This post is a fixed term post to cover a team member's maternity leave, currently the contract length is 7 months depending on starting date of 1st September until a contract end date of 31st March. There is a possibility that this may be extended based on funding and staffing requirements.

The post is based across the Solihull Hub, inputting to teams based at the Maple Leaf Centre in North Solihull and Lyndon Resource Centre in South Solihull. This is an ideal post that will allow you to apply your full range of psychological skills and knowledge including consultation, training, supervision, service development and leadership in addition to direct clinical work.

We are looking for a suitably experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (or equivalent applied Psychological Practitioner). Applicants for a band 7 post are also encouraged to apply if they do not currently have suitable experience for an 8a banding. We would welcome applications from candidates in the final stages of their training who are due to qualify later this year.


Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed and skilled clinician who can work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide a range of clinical services. The individual will have excellent opportunities to gain experience of multi-level and integrated service provision and to further develop skills of complex case assessment, formulation and the application of evidence based psychological interventions, both individual and in groups. You should have experience of working with service users with complex mental health and behavioural needs; additionally to be familiar with the needs of a diverse BAME community and working in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation.

We have an established track record in service innovation supporting a diverse range of clinical and academic interest, with time for research and teaching related activities built into many of our psychological professions job plans. There are clear career paths for psychologists in the service who join us, and we are committed to your development through training and supervision.


About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.


Job responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.


Person Specification


Training/qualifications

* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology
* Additional qualifications in an accredited therapy


Experience

* Significant post qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients with complex difficulties across adult secondary or tertiary care settings. (for 8a post)
* Experience working in Adult Secondary or Tertiary Mental Health services (for Preceptorship)
* Experience of working with service users with personality difficulties/complex trauma/psychosis


Experience

* Experience of running group based interventions for clinical problems
* Post qualification experience and/or training in supervision


Knowledge and Skills

* Skills in formulation of problems from psychological perspective and implementation of interventions appropriate for use with complex presenting problems
* High level knowledge of theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies


Personal

* Ability to interact with and to build an sustain relationships with people with mental health difficulties
* Experience of working closely with others in an MDT setting


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 and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £62,682 a yearper annum, pro rata

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