Senior Clinical Psychologist - Development Post Opportunity - 7 / 8a

Senior Clinical Psychologist - Development Post Opportunity

Closing date: 11 January 2026

Band: 7 / 8a - Development Post Opportunity

Location: Brooklands Hospital, Marston Green, Birmingham

Service: Inpatient Services for people with Intellectual Disabilities - Specialist Assessment and Treatment Services & Adolescent Unit.

Contract: Full-time, permanent

About the role

We are recruiting a Clinical Psychologist to join the team working within inpatient services for people with Intellectual Disabilities at Brooklands Hospital across the Specialist Assessment and Treatment service for adults and Adolescent Inpatient Service. Psychologists in the services are fully integrated within collaborative multi disciplinary teams, whilst also working closely with other psychologists on service development projects, to deliver training and develop groups and other interventions. The contribution of psychological services is highly valued within the teams and service management, and the team are often involved in developing innovative solutions to service needs.

Ideal experience

• Post qualification experience working with adults and/or young people with Intellectual Disabilities in community or inpatient settings.
• Commitment to this client group, even with experience in other settings.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have the opportunity to use the whole range of their psychological skills and experience. This will include clinical input in the form of assessments, individual and group therapies, team formulation, reflective practice and supporting other staff to undertake psychological interventions. They will also be involved in providing training and supervision to others and contributing to and leading on service development projects and undertaking audit and research.

About us

The SATS & CAMHS Psychological Services team are part of a wider Psychological Services team at Brooklands. The psychology department is a well established and supportive service. Successful applicants will receive support to further develop their skills and knowledge, through good quality supervision and training opportunities. The team have a range of clinical interests and expertise in different therapeutic models including CBT, DBT and Compassion Focused approaches.

Positive Behavioural Support is a major part of our treatment philosophy. The service ethos is to ensure that effective, evidence based interventions are provided to people who present considerable risk to themselves or others, to ensure they can return to a less restrictive environment in the community as soon as possible.

We regularly receive positive feedback from patients, carers and other professionals and are proud that the SATS service were recently short listed for the Royal College of Psychiatry Intellectual Disability team of the year award and the Adolescent Service was recently shortlisted for the CWPT Quality Award for Improvement and Innovation.

The service has strong links with local clinical psychology training courses and regularly provides placements for trainee clinical psychologists, supervision for research, and teaching on the local courses. There are also strong links with Community Learning Disability and Intensive Support teams across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role, please see the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications. If you do not yet meet the criteria for the band 8a role, we will also support applications from candidates that meet the criteria for the band 7 role and job description (please see additional documents on NHS Jobs). In these instances, the successful candidate would be appointed to a Development Post role at band 7 and provided opportunities and support to progress to the band 8a role upon successful completion of a preceptorship programme. It is expected that this process will be achievable within a period of up to two years, although timescales may vary between different staff members in Development Posts. In the event that elements of the expected competencies to progress to 8a are not fully met, the role will remain as a band 7. This will be further discussed as part of the interview and recruitment process as appropriate. Applications from newly qualified/soon to qualify clinicians would therefore be welcomed.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

Brian Oliver Building, Brooklands Hospital