Band 7-8a Practitioner Psychologist - Preceptorship


Company:	Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £64,750 per annum (pro rata)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Birmingham, B35 7QX
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Nov 2026
Closing date:	9 Dec 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

Please be aware that BCHC utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC and any correspondence will be sent via TRAC. We advise that you check your junk/spam emails.

We have exciting opportunities for either newly or recently qualified Band 7 Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologistslooking for a post with potential career progression to join our team under a Preceptorship development programme. We would also welcome applications fromBand 8a Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists. Based on relevant experience, these posts can be offered at a Band 8a or band 7 Preceptorship arrangement.

We are looking forcreative, innovative and enthusiasticClinical/Counselling/ Forensic Psychologists to deliver clinical services within our neurodevelopmental pathway, Children and Families Division. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary team and if you are passionate about developing services and delivering high quality input to neurodiverse people then we would love to hear from you.

Providing clinical services citywide, you will work with the multidisciplinary team to deliver specialist psychological neurodevelopmental assessments for individuals, groups and families as well as consultation to other professionals. You will have opportunities to develop a special interest in other parts of our division for example, within inclusion services, 0-19 provision and palliative care. We pride ourselves on ourcompassionate and inclusiveways of working with a strong agenda around equality and diversity at work and have a focus on staff wellbeing, both for ourselves as a psychology team, but also for our colleagues, clients and staff teams that we work with.

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Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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 better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for information on the main duties of the post.

This advert closes on Monday 23 Nov 2026

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