Band 8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist - Reaside Clinic

A Vacancy at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Are you?
• Creative, reflective, and emotionally resilient
• Passionate about working with people with complex presentations
• Interested in mental health, personality difficulties, trauma, and risk
• Able to work collaboratively while constructively challenging systems
• Compassionate, authentic, and relationship-focused

If you are, then we invite you to apply for a permanent role within our Secure Care and Offender Health Services at Reaside Clinic — a 92-bed medium secure inpatient service supporting adult men experiencing severe and complex mental health difficulties, often alongside histories of violence and offending behaviour.

At Reaside Clinic, you will become part of a highly supportive and expanding Psychological Therapies team made up of: Practitioner Psychologists, Arts Psychotherapists, Specialist Psychological Practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Psychologists. You will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment where psychological thinking is central to care, recovery, and service development.

This role is a leadership position within an existing team. It combines a combination of opportunities to influence, lead and contribute to service development initiatives, help integrate develop psychologically informed systems and cultures across services provide supervision and line management, support research, audit, training, and evaluation projects , and develop professional growth in yourself and others.

We recognise that working in secure care can be both rewarding and challenging. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and strong multi-model supervision structures designed to support your professional development and wellbeing.

We are also committed to helping staff identify and develop their own professional interests — your “shiny thing” — aligning your growth with both your aspirations and service needs.

We actively value diverse backgrounds and perspectives that can bring fresh thinking to our evolving services.

We are committed to continuous professional development and offer:
• Excellent supervision structures
• Opportunities for leadership development
• Access to research and innovation projects
• Supportive multidisciplinary working
• Career progression opportunities across SCOH service If you are ready for the next stage in your career and want to contribute to meaningful, psychologically informed care within a supportive and ambitious team, we would love to hear from you.

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.

Please click on the link for a little insight into our services and our people

If you are interested in any of the 8b posts within SCOH then you do not need to apply separately for roles and that a full time job split between the roles can be considered.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Jun 2026