Band 8b Principal Psychologist – CRHTT

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity in our CAMHS Urgent Care Team for a Principal Clinical/Forensic Psychologist with experience and a passion for working with young people under the age of 18. We are enhancing our provision by strengthening the psychological leadership in the CAMHS Urgent Care Team. It is a great time to join the team as we are looking at new models of care and how to improve our provision of ‘helpful help’ to the children and young people of Birmingham. This is an ideal post to apply your full range of psychological skills and knowledge including consultation, training, supervision, service development, leadership, and research in addition to direct clinical work.

Main duties of the job

You will join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team who are excited about welcoming a new Principal Psychologist into the service. Duties will include providing specialist psychological assessment, comprehensive risk assessment and brief therapeutic interventions for clients and families, offering advice, consultation, training and supervision on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and other professionals, and playing an active role as part of the multidisciplinary leadership team. We have an established track record in service innovation supporting a diverse range of clinical and academic interests, with time for research and teaching related activities built into our psychological professions job plans. We are committed to your development through training and supervision. As a service are committed to providing recovery-promoting, autism-accepting and trauma-informed services, drawing on the creativity of our talented and experienced staff, together with the lived experience of our experts by experience. We are continuously learning and evolving, as we work together to meet the mental health needs of our multi-cultural city.

Person Specification

Training and 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; or Doctorate in Forensic Psychology), 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.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical or forensic psychologist / psychological therapist post- qualification, with additional experience working at the senior (Band 8a) level.
• Experience of highly specialist psychological assessment and individual and group-based treatment of clients
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the psychological care and treatment of referred clients, and of working within a multidisciplinary context wherein carries responsibility for the psychological aspects of a multidisciplinary care plan.

Desirable

• Experience of the application of psychological principles in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Highly developed theoretical and practical knowledge of the field of clinical or forensic psychology, consistent with professional training and further post qualification study, training and supervised experience during the substantial experience as a qualified psychologist / psychological therapist.
• Highly developed skills, commensurate with professional 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.
• Skills in providing consultation and advice from a psychological perspective to members of other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge and skills in participating in or leading on service development and delivery

Closing Date: 19 August 2026