A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Following the departure of a valued team member, we have a vacancy for a 0.6 wte permanent vacancy. If you are looking for a full-time role, please get in touch and we can see what we can do to make this happen. We are looking for someone who aligns with our values as a team and can also challenge us with compassion to be better.
We have a range of experienced staff including Practitioner Psychologists, an Art Therapist, Specialist Psychological Practitioner and Assistant Psychologists. We also support the development of trainee psychological practitioners, who bring with them innovation, ideas and invitations to improve our work.
The Practitioner Psychologist vacancy at the Tamarind Centre (male medium-secure unit) involves working alongside a range of professionals, providing safe, containing and connected psychological advice, care and therapy to help people understand themselves, their mental health and offending behaviour. Part of your role will be to work alongside staff to ensure the service user has the most effective, efficient and relationally connected and contained experience. Within the Tamarind we also have a strong service user involvement and co-production ethos, having developed projects with a local radio station, delivering trauma-informed care training and much more.
The Practitioner Psychologist role is broad, and we advocate for you to maintain all aspects of your professional role, including service development, research, therapeutic excellence, and leadership as appropriate. You will be encouraged to find your ‘shiny thing’ to help you feel value, and to promote the creativity and development of the department whilst contributing to the evidence base. We are looking for registered Practitioner Psychologists who are interested in working in secure environments with highly sensitive content. Whilst secure experience will be highly desirable, we encourage a breadth of experience to help bring new thinking to our services as the culture evolves.
If you are ready for the next stage of your career progression, and able to compassionately challenge systems and staff to be better, hold integrity and also connect with the people around you, we hope you apply. The team at Tamarind will make you feel welcome, connected and push you to excel in ways that you can envision and beyond, so that alongside service users we are proud of what we do. Our latest recruited team member reflected that they were pleasantly surprised at the authenticity, genuineness and openness in the team. Come and join us and experience what a healthy team can be.
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. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
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. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
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This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025