Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship - Tamarind Centre
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B9 5PU |
| Company: | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7198761/436-7198761 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Tamarind Centre, Birmingham- 0.6 Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologists (Forensic/Counselling/ Clinical) with Preceptorship
Are you compassionate and down to earth? Do you have a passion for social justice? Do you have experience of working in forensic services? This role may be for you.
The Tamarind Centre is a medium secure hospital, serving a diverse population of men with complex mental health needs, risk and offending behaviours. We are looking for a 0.6WTE Permanent Practitioner Psychologist to join us at Band 8A or Band 7 on a Trustwide Preceptorship. We are a down to earth, diverse, flexible and creative team and welcome a similar individual whose values and interests align with the department’s around social justice, intersectionality, compassion and innovation.
The role offers opportunities to enhance your skills across a range of domains. You will deliver evidence- based therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CFT, schema) both in groups and with individuals, and gain experience in facilitating the Life Minus Violence (LMV), high intensity, nationally accredited programme for violence. In combination, we also value insights from practice-based evidence. You will take an active role in supporting the nursing staff through reflective practice and promoting a psychologically informed ward environment. We encourage staff to develop their supervisory and leadership abilities, and these will form part of your core role in supporting assistant psychologists and trainees.
Service user involvement and co-production are at the heart of our work. We are currently rolling out trauma informed training across the site for staff and service users. This has been co-produced and co-facilitated with our service users and has been a major milestone for the service. We are passionate about research, innovation and service development, and also encourage staff to integrate their professional interests into their work. Our most recent projects have included examining racial trauma in staff and piloting a culturally informed mental health awareness group. Our interests and ways of working reflect our values in compassionately challenging some of the dominant narratives in systems.
In summary, we are a forward thinking, warm and authentic team. We also pride ourselves in working relationally and in our efforts toward building a sense of community within the Tamarind.
If you are drawn to this role, we strongly encourage you to apply, and if you have questions, please feel free to get in touch with 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.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Psychology recruitment (youtube.com)
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025
Tamarind Centre, Birmingham- 0.6 Band 7/8a Practitioner Psychologists (Forensic/Counselling/ Clinical) with Preceptorship
Are you compassionate and down to earth? Do you have a passion for social justice? Do you have experience of working in forensic services? This role may be for you.
The Tamarind Centre is a medium secure hospital, serving a diverse population of men with complex mental health needs, risk and offending behaviours. We are looking for a 0.6WTE Permanent Practitioner Psychologist to join us at Band 8A or Band 7 on a Trustwide Preceptorship. We are a down to earth, diverse, flexible and creative team and welcome a similar individual whose values and interests align with the department’s around social justice, intersectionality, compassion and innovation.
The role offers opportunities to enhance your skills across a range of domains. You will deliver evidence- based therapies (e.g., CBT, DBT, CFT, schema) both in groups and with individuals, and gain experience in facilitating the Life Minus Violence (LMV), high intensity, nationally accredited programme for violence. In combination, we also value insights from practice-based evidence. You will take an active role in supporting the nursing staff through reflective practice and promoting a psychologically informed ward environment. We encourage staff to develop their supervisory and leadership abilities, and these will form part of your core role in supporting assistant psychologists and trainees.
Service user involvement and co-production are at the heart of our work. We are currently rolling out trauma informed training across the site for staff and service users. This has been co-produced and co-facilitated with our service users and has been a major milestone for the service. We are passionate about research, innovation and service development, and also encourage staff to integrate their professional interests into their work. Our most recent projects have included examining racial trauma in staff and piloting a culturally informed mental health awareness group. Our interests and ways of working reflect our values in compassionately challenging some of the dominant narratives in systems.
In summary, we are a forward thinking, warm and authentic team. We also pride ourselves in working relationally and in our efforts toward building a sense of community within the Tamarind.
If you are drawn to this role, we strongly encourage you to apply, and if you have questions, please feel free to get in touch with 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.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Psychology recruitment (youtube.com)
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Jun 2025