Band 4 Assistant Psychologist – Perinatal Community Mental Health Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Assistant Psychologist to join the Perinatal Mental Health Community Teams in East Birmingham. The role involves providing support in clinical interventions, data collection, and analysis for service evaluation. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, supervised by a Clinical Psychologist. The service operates Monday-Friday, 9.00am-5.00pm, with a full-time post being 37.5 hours per week.
Key responsibilities
- Provide support in clinical interventions.
- Conduct data collection and analysis for service evaluation.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist.
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
- Relevant clinical experience in a mental health setting e.g. assistant psychology post/internship/graduate health care worker/care work
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, service evaluation and/or research design and analysis.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
- Ability to use databases and carry out data-analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding/ reflection of working in multicultural settings
- An interest in working in the field of perinatal mental health.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Perinatal Mental Health Community Teams in East Birmingham. Birmingham and Solihull Perinatal Mental Health Services are currently expanding with a focus on developing innovative forms of service delivery in the community.
The Service operates Monday-Friday; 9.00am-5.00pm. This is a full time post working 37.5 hours per week. The Community Perinatal Teams include a Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Manager, Mental Health Nurses, Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Nursery Nurses and Peer Support Workers. The ability to work flexibly and positively in multidisciplinary teams is therefore essential.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated Assistant Psychologist with a genuine interest in perinatal mental health. The role includes providing support in both clinical interventions and data collection and analysis for service evaluation. You will be part of the multidisciplinary team and will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist. Applicants will need to have experience of a mental health setting, good communication skills and an ability to understand and analyse data.
About us
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
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