Company: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Birmingham
Posted: May 4th, 2026
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The closing date is 24 May 2026
The Autism Assessment Team is seeking a creative and enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist to join the Team. We welcome applications from those at band 7 as this is a preceptorship role with scope to progress to 8a over time. We are a multi-disciplinary team comprised of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy.
The team is part of the Children and Young People's Division of the Trust and offers specialist assessment and post diagnostic support to young people up to the age of 25 who have co-occurring mental health difficulties. All Team members are offered training in specialist assessments as well as regular CPD events to enhance clinical practice.
There are lots of elements to this post that are more than assessment! The post holder will provide specialist assessment alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues, offer consultation and training to colleagues across the mental health services, develop and deliver post diagnostic input for families and young people and ensure the needs of neurodiverse people are promoted and understood across all of our services. In addition, the post holder will have the opportunity to work with a small caseload of clients referred to one of our core community teams to consolidate and develop psychological therapy skills.
Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and post diagnostic input to clients and their families as well as offering indirect clinical services such as advice and consultation to colleagues and other professionals.
Involvement in service planning and development, this will include identifying need and participating in development plan processes.
Contribute to the development of the Team offer.
Staff support and supervision, and facilitation of client related work undertaken by other team members.
Staff training.
Applied research and development related to the needs of the client served and the Children and Young People's Division.
Participation in Clinical Governance activities including Continuing Professional Development.
Participation in the development of operational policy, service planning and service evaluation.
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.
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.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
£49,387 to £64,750 a yearper annum, pro rata
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