# Band 5 Psychology Support Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-psychology-support-officer/fcc2888a-bcfa-45fd-a8b4-587ff57f0f3a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-5-psychology-support-officer/fcc2888a-bcfa-45fd-a8b4-587ff57f0f3a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Birmingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 22 months (full time) - **Employment type:** Full time, Home or remote working, 37.5 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-09T09:42:24.126Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Solihull_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Corporate_Psychology/Corporate_Psychology-v8105957 - **Employer website:** https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Come Join Our Team! Are you keen to support our NHS workforce to develop and grow? Could you help develop the range of roles and opportunities for Psychological Professions in the NHS? If so, come join our team! This is an exciting time to join the Corporate Psychology team in our Trust.  As an all-age mental health service provider, we are involved in a range of transformational professional practice, professional standards, workforce development and training and education projects, both internal to the Trust and Region wide for psychological professionals. And we need your skillset... You will support, co-ordinate and monitor professional practice, professional standards, workforce development and Education & Training for Psychological Professionals Projects within Chief Psychologist’s portfolio. This 22-month fixed-term full-time co-ordination role will have strong project support and data reporting focus, and will also include key elements of project coordination and delivery. You will also provide an effective and comprehensive administrative support to the Chief Psychologist and senior Psychological Professions leads responsible for key project areas. You will be supported to work autonomously, initiating action on behalf of the Chief Psychologist linked to agreed programmes of work. This position will be hybrid working with pre-planned attendance at Trust sites as required. ### Main duties of the job The Psychological Professions work across a diverse range of all-age mental health services covering Birmingham and Solihull. In addition to our clinical services, we also have an established training programme with our local Universities, to provide Low Intensity Psychological Interventions training for NHS Talking Therapies service and are clinical placement providers for a range of course programmes for the Psychological Professions workforce. We also host Psychological Professionals Network for the midlands and have strong working relationships with NHS England and Birmingham & Solihull Education Collaborative. We work together to ensure that our colleagues have the best possible CPD and training opportunities to provide best possible care for our service users and communities. The post holder will be responsible for monitoring and diarising key project meetings and monitoring key elements of Corporate Psychology projects. Monitoring of email accounts and queries ensuring that service contacts receive a prompt response to all correspondence and enquiries. The post holder will also take the lead in providing workforce project support and coordination of workforce data returns for the Chief Psychological Professions Officer, working autonomously to deliver various programmes of work. This co-ordination role will have a strong workforce administrative element, but will also include key elements of project coordination, support, and delivery. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. This role gives the opportunity for hybrid working and you will typically be asked to work in a hybrid way, working from your home and also from Trust HQ The Uffculme Centre, or any other agreed site. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - - Degree level qualification or equivalent experience - - 5 x GCSE at Grace C and above including English and ability to demonstrate excellent use of the English language/ grammar - - Relevant Project Management Qualification or equivalent experience ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - - Significant knowledge and experience in project support and coordination using project management principles - - Significant knowledge and experience in providing senior administrative support, as well as reporting and analysis of information ## Documents - [applicant guide (pdf, 313.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1260) - [job description (pdf, 145.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10400575) - [equality statement (pdf, 572.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2416) - [person specification (pdf, 118.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10400576) - [everyday behaviours guide (pdf, 159.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2415) - [information for applicants (pdf, 431.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1709) ## 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.