Band 8A Practitioner Psychologists

Overview

Our two men b 0s medium secure inpatient services, Reaside and Tamarind Centre, are seeking four Band 8A Practitioner Psychologists to join our team a three permanent (two at Tamarind, one at Reaside) and one fixed-term maternity cover  warmly encourage newly qualified Band 7 practitioners interested in forensic settings to apply, offering structured preceptorship and supervision to support your progression. Experienced psychologists interested in forensic inpatient work are also warmly welcomed.

As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide safe, connected psychological care to individuals with complex presentations many with histories of trauma, neglect, and offending. Our approach is recovery-focused, balancing therapeutic work with effective risk management. We support service users to understand their mental health and offending behaviours while fostering their recovery.

We seek people who:

• Bring integrity, warmth, and resilience in working with diverse, complex populations and are passionate about collaborative, trauma-informed, recovery-focused care.
• Are eager to use and develop skills across psychological models such as CBT, CAT, EMDR, DBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, and ACT.
• Are familiar with structured clinical judgement tools and psychometric assessment.

In this role, you will contribute meaningfully to service development, research, and therapeutic excellence within a supportive environment. Regular clinical, managerial, and model-specific group supervision offer valuable space to reflect and grow professionally while navigating the complexities of the work. These include CBT (including ACT), CAT, DBT, EMDR, and Compassion Focused Therapy. There are also spaces and opportunities to develop your forensic practice and knowledge of models of offending.

We value the wide range of skills Practitioner Psychologists bring and support your involvement in quality improvement and research. Our work streams focus on family and carer involvement, addressing health inequalities, and enhancing trauma-informed care.

Working within SCOH requires emotional resilience, confidence, and dedication. Our staff navigate the challenges and rewards of supporting people towards safer, better lives. We prioritise both service user needs and staff well-being through robust support.

If you 0re looking for a role where you can bring your whole self to work, grow within a thoughtful and skilled team, and make a meaningful difference, we 0d 0 be delighted to hear from you. We warmly invite you to get in touch for a visit or informal conversation. If you 00re passionate about delivering excellent, innovative NHS care within forensic mental health, we encourage you to apply and join our compassionate, evolving services.

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.

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.

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