Band 8b Highly Specialist Psychologist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Learning Disabilities Service Community Team Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist Band 8b 0.9 wte (part/time flexible working possible)

Following the promotion of the existing post-holder, we are seeking an experienced, innovative and passionate psychologist who can play a key role in the leadership of community learning disability services in Birmingham. This post will encourage the utilisation of a wide range of psychological, therapeutic, research and leadership skills both within psychology and in the wider Learning Disabilities service.

• As a community psychology lead, you will play a key role in ensuring that clients with learning disabilities, who may present with complexity, risk and associated health conditions live a meaningful life with minimal restrictions within their local community.
• You will provide assurance to our leadership team that our clients receive timely access to high quality, formulation driven, evidence based support in line with their presenting biopsychosocial needs.
• You will be responsible for the delivery, supervision and line management of psychological assessments, formulation and therapy, for referred individuals and families as well as consultation to professional carers and MDT colleagues.

Be Part of Our Team

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with Learning Disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

We pride ourselves on our compassionate and inclusive ways of working, which seek to reduce the risk of inpatient admission and associated trauma. We seek to improve quality of life for our clients, whilst strengthening relationships and attachments with others. We have a focus on wellbeing, both for ourselves as a psychology team, but also for our colleagues, clients and staff teams that we work with.

We would be particularly interested to hear from applicants who have proven experience in leading strategic development or quality improvement initiatives within MDT teams and across services.

Here is some feedback from trainees who have been on placement in the community team:

• “the clients, close knit MDT and supportive supervisors make the community LD service a great place to work”
• “lots of opportunities for getting involved with other aspects of the service, for example with staff wellbeing or the Service User Group”
• “variety of interests within the psychology team which means you get to experience different models and perspectives. For example, there are opportunities to work systemically or from a trauma informed perspective”

You would be based one of our Community Learning Disability bases which are situated within the Birmingham community. Whilst our work is moving towards a locality based model of care, you may be expected to travel throughout Birmingham, with occasional out of area visits. Requests for part-time or flexible working will be considered in line with the needs of our clients and the wider service.

You will be welcomed into an established group of experienced, friendly and supportive psychologists, banded from 8C to 7, as well as Honorary Assistant Psychologists and Trainees who are valued members of our team. We work closely with psychology colleagues in the Community Forensic Team and Intensive Support Team.

We have expertise in a broad range of adapted psychological models, including behavioural (primarily PBS), systemic, narrative, CBT, ACT, psychodynamic and attachment, CFT, Video Interaction Guidance, CAT and EMDR. We are passionate about trauma-informed care and are constantly advocate for these principles to be embedded at all levels of service and pathway development.

We have developed a thriving family therapy and consultation service. Psychologists are actively encouraged to participate within research, which is facilitated by our close working links with Professor Peter Langdon who holds a position as an Approved Clinician within our service.

Our specialist healthcare service for people with learning disabilities also offers a wide and diverse range of experiences for the post holder, such as opportunities to develop clinical leadership skills and be involved with wider clinical projects, including projects to address and reduce health inequalities.

The Psychology Service offers support and close links with other psychologists through peer supervision, CPD events and team meetings. There are good links with the local DClinPsy training course and the MSCi pathway at Birmingham University.

You are also invited to join the newly developed West Midlands Learning Disability special interest group, which brings together clinicians and academic colleagues from across the region to improve the standards of our services via research and collaboration.

The post holder will also be part of the professional network of Applied Psychologists working across BCHC NHS Foundation Trust, within our Learning Disabilities, NeuroRehabilitation, Stroke, Pain Management, Weight Management services and Children’s Neurodevelopmental pathway team, with access to a variety of models for clinical supervision, expert coaching, mentoring and other CPD opportunities.

This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026.