Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist Preceptorship - Secure Services

A permanent vacancy for Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist in CAMEO, Specialist Offender Personality Disorder Service. We are recruiting for a Band 7/8A Practitioner Psychologist at CAMEO, a Personality Disorder service based at HMP Foston Hall. CAMEO is a specialist, intensive day treatment personality disorder service for high-risk women with complex needs. The service offers a range of psychological interventions, aiming to alleviate distress for the individual, improve emotional regulation, and reduce levels of risk. CAMEO is part of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPD) and is a partnership service between BSMHFT, HMPPS, and Anawim, a third sector Women’s charity.

We welcome applications from people interested in working with complex presentations, balancing clinical need with risk management. A core part will be to work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines sharing psychological knowledge and consistently improving the psychological mindedness of the service. We are looking for people from diverse backgrounds with an interest in enhancing the lives of people who have experienced adverse life experiences and have a history of offending behaviour.

Main duties of the job:

• The people we work with have often experienced significant difficulties throughout their lives and have varying relationships with services due to a complex interplay of factors.
• We work collaboratively alongside a multidisciplinary team and other partner organisations to ensure that these factors are held in mind.
• Balancing the needs of the service user is central to our work whilst also ensuring our staff are supported and feel valued.
• We offer model-specific supervision in addition to individual supervision, management supervision, and group reflective spaces.
• As a forensic service, we balance interventions for mental health with offending needs, incorporating structured clinical judgement tools as routine practice within our work.
• We value the breadth of skills that Practitioner Psychologists bring; therefore, alongside your therapeutic work, you will be supported to develop service provision using quality improvement (QI) and research methodology.

The roles can be emotionally taxing requiring a robustness to manage the complex emotions and processes that occur. Working within Secure Care and Offender Health is challenging yet rewarding.

Working for our organisation:

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Satisfactory completion of a British Psychological Society accredited Doctoral Level postgraduate professional training course in clinical/forensic psychology.
• Eligibility for entry onto the Register of Chartered Psychologists.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and individual and group-based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including forensic contexts with clients of all ages.
• Experience of working therapeutically with ‘difficult to treat’ clients.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific ‘difficult to treat’ groups.

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.