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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
15 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment (including psychometrics such as ADOS), intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Skills
Knowledge of typical and atypical child development including neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD/ASD
- Skills
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. dual diagnoses, children with additional learning disabilities or difficulties etc).
- Skills
Knowledge of legislation in relation to children
- Experience
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Qualifications
An undergraduate degree in psychology.
- Qualifications
Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- Personal Qualities
Self-motivated.
- Personal Qualities
Positive, energetic, enthusiastic in outlook and able to set a good example
- Personal Qualities
Ability to manage under pressure; work to tight deadlines, evidencing excellent time management
- Personal Qualities
Able to work independently or as part of a team.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Qualifications
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Job overview
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
We have exciting opportunities for either newly or recently qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists looking for a post with potential career progression to join our team under a Preceptorship development programme. We would also welcome applications from Band 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists. Based on relevant experience, these posts can be offered at a Band 8a or band 7 Preceptorship arrangement.
We are looking for creative, innovative and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling/ Forensic Psychologists to deliver clinical services within our neurodevelopmental pathway, Children and Families Division. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary team and if you are passionate about developing services and delivering high quality input to neurodiverse people then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Providing clinical services citywide, you will work with the multidisciplinary team to deliver specialist psychological neurodevelopmental assessments for individuals, groups and families as well as consultation to other professionals. You will have opportunities to develop a special interest in other parts of our division for example, within inclusion services, 0-19 provision and palliative care. We pride ourselves on our compassionate and inclusive ways of working with a strong agenda around equality and diversity at work and have a focus on staff wellbeing, both for ourselves as a psychology team, but also for our colleagues, clients and staff teams that we work with.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for information on the main duties of the post.
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.
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This advert is for Band 7-8a Practitioner Psychologist - Preceptorship with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £64,750 per annum (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Sep 2026.
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