Band 7 Practice Placement Manager – HQ (B13 8QY): Sponsorship Available

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Come and join our team!

Are you a Psychological Professional or experienced Psychological Professions educator passionate about improving patient care by developing our future workforce? Join our Corporate Psychological Professions team and help strengthen the education, placement and workforce pipeline across our services.

A key focus of this 21-month fixed term role is increasing access to high-quality clinical and practice placements and growing supervision capacity, helping us develop a sustainable workforce that meets the needs of our patients and communities. You will:

  • grow and widen access to placement and supervision capacity
  • support NHS England Education and Training Activity Planning (ETAP) and improve workforce, placement and supervision reporting
  • lead careers workshops and engagement activities, working with professional bodies, education providers and community partners to widen access and help address workforce inequalities
  • support high-quality learning environments through the Safe Learning Environment Charter, National Education and Training Survey (NETS), Educator Voice and learner feedback
  • contribute to NHS England professional registration and recognised title requirements and strengthen pre- and post-registration pathways into employment.

Main duties of the job

You will bring professional knowledge and experience of Psychological Professions practice, education or training, enabling you to work confidently with learners, supervisors, services, Higher Education Institutions and other partners. You will also support the Chief Psychological Professions Officer and senior Psychological Professions leads in delivering education and workforce priorities.

Our growing team of Psychological Professions work across a diverse range of primary and secondary care mental health services, specialist community and inpatient service settings and in physical healthcare settings services covering Birmingham and Solihull. In addition to our clinical services, we also have an established training programme with our local Universities, to provide Low Intensity Psychological Interventions training for NHS Talking Therapies service and are clinical placement providers for a range of course programmes for the Psychological Professions workforce. We have strong working relationships with NHSE, and work together to ensure that our colleagues have the best possible CPD and training opportunities to provide high quality care for our service users and communities. Supporting, students, trainers and learners who are all committed to work as a registered/accredited Psychological Professional, is a key part of this.

Person Specification

Training and Qualification

Essential

  • Qualification in a Psychological Profession, or relevant postgraduate qualification in psychology with significant experience in Psychological Professions education, training or workforce development.
  • Current registration with the relevant statutory regulator or an NHS England-recognised register, where required for the professional title or role held.
  • Recognised mentoring qualification / Evidence of having completed relevant Student Supervision and Assessment training.
  • Evidence of continuous professional and management development.

Desirable

  • Leadership and Management qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • Knowledge of current issues and priorities for mental health care.
  • Knowledge of current psychological professions training programmes.
  • Experience of teaching and educational knowledge to be able to create effective teaching and learning environments.
  • Recent experience of mentoring/coaching junior staff.
  • Experience of supporting, assessing and providing pastoral support to learners.
  • A good working knowledge of clinical procedures and experience of application in practice

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working as a clinical educator.
  • Formal teaching experience: for example, delivery of statutory and mandatory courses/ teaching in education establishments.
  • Experience of devising, implementing, and reviewing action plans to aid learners’ development.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to communicate effectively within a multi-professional team.
  • Evidence of multi-professional team working.
  • Able to work flexibly to support staff/learners develop, as well as meet service need.
  • Able to work under own initiative and under pressure.
  • Data collection and statistical analysis skills.

Desirable

  • Demonstrate management abilities i.e. relevant decision making.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 30 November 2026

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