# Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Reaside Clinic > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8b-principal-practitioner-psychologist-reaside-clinic/74e7fd6f-3a32-4efa-87bd-c1e0023297b0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8b-principal-practitioner-psychologist-reaside-clinic/74e7fd6f-3a32-4efa-87bd-c1e0023297b0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Birmingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-03T08:42:54.564Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Solihull_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Secure_Care_Offender_Health/Secure_Care_Offender_Health-v8038944 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8038944?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you? - Creative, reflective, and emotionally resilient - Passionate about working with people with complex presentations - Interested in mental health, personality difficulties, trauma, and risk - Able to work collaboratively while constructively challenging systems - Compassionate, authentic, and relationship-focused If you are, then we invite you to apply for a permanent role within our Secure Care and Offender Health Services at Reaside Clinic — a 92-bed medium secure inpatient service supporting adult men experiencing severe and complex mental health difficulties, often alongside histories of violence and offending behaviour. At Reaside Clinic, you will become part of a highly supportive and expanding Psychological Therapies team made up of: Practitioner Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Specialist Psychological Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists. You will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment where psychological thinking is central to care, recovery, and service development. ### Main duties of the job This role is a leadership position within an existing team. It combines a combination of opportunities to influence,  lead and contribute to service development initiatives, help integrate develop psychologically informed systems and cultures across services provide supervision and line management,  support research, audit, training, and evaluation projects , and develop professional growth in yourself and others. We recognise that working in secure care can be both rewarding and challenging. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and strong multi-model supervision structures designed to support your professional development and wellbeing. We are also committed to helping staff identify and develop their own professional interests — your “shiny thing” — aligning your growth with both your aspirations and service needs. We actively value diverse backgrounds and perspectives that can bring fresh thinking to our evolving services. We are committed to continuous professional development and offer: - Excellent supervision structures - Opportunities for leadership development - Access to research and innovation projects - Supportive multidisciplinary working - Career progression opportunities across SCOH service                              If you are ready for the next stage in your career and want to contribute to meaningful, psychologically informed care within a supportive and ambitious team, we would love to hear from you. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people https://vimeo.com/benthompsonfilms/psychologyrecruitment?share=copy If you are interested in any of the 8b posts within SCOH then you do not  need to apply separately for roles and that a full time job split between the roles can be considered. ## Job Details Are you? Creative, reflective, and emotionally resilient Passionate about working with people with complex presentations Interested in mental health, personality difficulties, trauma, and risk Able to work collaboratively while constructively challenging systems Compassionate, authentic, and relationship-focused If you are, then we invite you to apply for a permanent role within our Secure Care and Offender Health Services at Reaside Clinic — a 92-bed medium secure inpatient service supporting adult men experiencing severe and complex mental health difficulties, often alongside histories of violence and offending behaviour. At Reaside Clinic, you will become part of a highly supportive and expanding Psychological Therapies team made up of: Practitioner Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Specialist Psychological Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists. You will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment where psychological thinking is central to care, recovery, and service development. ## Job Description This role is a leadership position within an existing team. It combines a combination of opportunities to influence, lead and contribute to service development initiatives, help integrate develop psychologically informed systems and cultures across services provide supervision and line management, support research, audit, training, and evaluation projects , and develop professional growth in yourself and others. We recognise that working in secure care can be both rewarding and challenging. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and strong multi-model supervision structures designed to support your professional development and wellbeing. We are also committed to helping staff identify and develop their own professional interests — your “shiny thing” — aligning your growth with both your aspirations and service needs. We actively value diverse backgrounds and perspectives that can bring fresh thinking to our evolving services. We are committed to continuous professional development and offer: Excellent supervision structures Opportunities for leadership development Access to research and innovation projects Supportive multidisciplinary working Career progression opportunities across SCOH service If you are ready for the next stage in your career and want to contribute to meaningful, psychologically informed care within a supportive and ambitious team, we would love to hear from you. ## Responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people https://vimeo.com/benthompsonfilms/psychologyrecruitment?share=copy If you are interested in any of the 8b posts within SCOH then you do not need to apply separately for roles and that a full time job split between the roles can be considered. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively - Awareness and understanding of the purpose and mechanisms of clinical governance and an ability to employ such mechanisms to maintain and improve standards of clinical practice ### Skills **Essential** - Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups - Highly developed skills, commensurate with doctoral level training and post qualification training and experience, in the formulation of highly complex problems from a psychological perspective and in the implementation of highly specialist psychological therapies, interventions and management techniques that are appropriate for use with highly complex presenting problems. Able to deliver established/evidenced based psychological therapy to fidelity. **Desirable** - In depth knowledge of information governance legislation and information sharing practices across agencies ### Personal **Essential** - Is a ‘team player’ and has demonstrated ability to work and deliver to team and organisational objectives - Capacity for tolerating frustration, change and high levels of demand with an ability to work effectively under pressure. ### Experience **Essential** - Assessed experience of working as a registered practitioner psychologist for a minimum of 4 years post qualification, with a minimum of at least 2 years at the Senior (highly specialist) level. - Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including primary and secondary/ specialist care and inpatient/residential, outpatient and community team settings. - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, with clients of all ages across the lifespan and of wide-ranging presenting problems that reflect the full spectrum of clinical complexity and severity. - Relevant post-qualification experience, and formal training in supervision, enabling the post holder to independently supervise clinical psychology trainees in accordance with relevant criteria adopted by local University Clinical Psychology Training Course criteria **Desirable** - Experience of the application of clinical forensic psychology in different cultural contexts. - Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ and or ‘hard to reach’ groups and clients. - Experience of safeguarding and risk management across several agencies, including appropriately escalating concerns ### Qualifications **Essential** - Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical psychology (the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), the completion of which includes the study of models of psychopathology, psychometric and neuropsychological assessment, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. - The Graduate Basis for Registration (further to completion of an honours degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society, or, in the case of courses that are not accredited or where the first degree is not in psychology, by completion of the Society’s Qualifying examination, or completion of a Society accredited Conversion Course). **Desirable** - Post-doctoral training in one or more highly specialist areas of psychological practice / therapy. ## Documents - [applicant guide (pdf, 313.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1260) - [job description (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10327322) - [equality statement (pdf, 572.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2416) - [person specification (pdf, 136.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10327323) - [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. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.