# Applied Psychologist in Behcets > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/applied-psychologist-in-behcets/21f21af0-8e42-4147-9005-c67c3224a671 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/applied-psychologist-in-behcets/21f21af0-8e42-4147-9005-c67c3224a671.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Bushey Fields Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-19T16:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-05T13:00:59.028Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Midlands/Birmingham/Black_Country_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Applied_Psychologist/Applied_Psychologist-v8337174 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8337174?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for a Practitioner (Clinical, Counselling or Health) Psychologist to join our Clinical Health Psychology Service. This is a part time (0.6WTE or 22.5 hours), 8a role, in a specialist service for Behçets Disease. The post holder will be based at City Hospital in Birmingham, with the MDT, in the Behçets Centre of Excellence. The Birmingham Centre of Excellence is one of three Specialist Centres in England, supporting patients with this rare condition. The wider MDT place a high value on having a Psychologist as part of their team and as the post is well established, the team are always keen to ensure that the care they deliver is grounded in the principals of good psychological care. The team are research active and so there are opportunities to engage in research, as well as teaching, training, consultation and supervision. ### Main duties of the job The post is also part of the wider Clinical Health Psychology team, within Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust. The aim of our service is to decrease psychological distress, support engagement in treatment and rehab, improve quality of life and enhance wellbeing in those who have a physical health condition, supporting people to live well, alongside their condition. The service offers psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to patients from a variety of medical specialities. The service also offers teaching, training and consultancy to staff from these multi-disciplinary teams to enable them to manage psychological issues with their patients and incorporate psychological principles into their own practice. We use stepped or matched care models based on clinical guidance, with physical health psychology offering direct work with the most complex patients and supporting the team to work with lower-level distress via teaching and training, supervision and consultation. There is good professional support and supervision in place, from a Principal Clinical Psychologist and also from the wider Clinical Health Psychology Team. The Clinical Health Psychology team comprises a large group of Clinical, Counselling and Health Psychologists working across Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton with a wide range of physical health conditions. There are good opportunities for peer support and development. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job Purpose - Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with highly complex mental health or learning disabilities which may include challenging behaviours. - To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families. - To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental health or learning disabilities. - To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust. - In line with the banding of the post and its service context to: - Exercise supervisory/professional responsibility for other psychological therapists - Provide leadership in multi-disciplinary training and development - Provide leadership in service audit and development - provide leadership in service evaluation and research - Ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings. ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied Psychology (or its equivalent) 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 with Chartered Status - Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees ## Documents - [advert 8a bechet's 0.6 wte (pdf, 38.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661350) - [bchft anti racist declaration (pdf, 222.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2381) - [jd/ps 8a applied psychologist in bechet's (pdf, 434.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661349) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.