Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - PACT Team

Band 4 Assistant Psychologist - PACT Team

Employer: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Birmingham, B19 1HS

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 08/02/2026

A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Are you looking for the chance to work creatively to meet the diverse needs of children and young people who have experienced complex trauma? Do you like working alongside different disciplines?

We are excited to offer an Assistant Psychologist (Band
4) Full-time (37.5 hours) post within our Personality and Complex Trauma (PACT) Team in Forward Thinking Birmingham.

The team is unique, enhanced and psychological‑led and informed. We support children and young people who have complex needs and often high levels of risk. The team works to support community and acute services through consultation, supervision and training, to help young people remain in the community.

As the Assistant Psychologist to the team, your work will support the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Team including the weekly group intervention, support the PACT Team and various aspects of routine clinical work (file reviews, developing formulations, risk assessments, literature searches). There may be opportunities to be involved in training, supervision groups, consultation, administer outcomes measures, research and service development.

Under the management, clinical supervision, and direction of a qualified and suitably experienced professional psychologist, you will work within guidelines and procedures determined and monitored by the qualified psychologist, exercising initiative within agreed parameters and referring to the psychologist in relation to non‑routine matters. Supports qualified psychologists in governance, audit, research and clinical administrative activities, collecting, collating and analysing data, writing and presenting reports and assisting in project development.

Assists in planning and contributing to teaching/training programmes, and participates in personal appraisal and continuing professional development.

In completing duties, draws on a knowledge base commensurate with a good honours degree in psychology and eligibility for graduate membership of the BPS.

• Support the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Team including weekly group intervention.
• Support the PACT Team and routine clinical work (file reviews, developing formulations, risk assessments, literature searches).
• Involved in training, supervision and consultation groups.
• Administer outcomes measures, research and service development.
• Assist qualified psychologists in governance, audit, research and clinical admin (data collection, analysis, reports).
• Plan and contribute to teaching/training programmes.
• Participate in personal appraisal and continuing professional development.

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