Consultant Psychologist

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time £72,085 - £82,841
Overview

Believe in People?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

Service Based Consultant Psychologist  (i.e. Clinical, Counselling, Forensic)

Based in a local delivery hub

At Change Grow Live we care deeply about social justice and the work that we do. If you do too and you have the necessary experience and passion for this post, we encourage you to apply for this innovative leadership position. We are looking for a registered Psychologist who has the appropriate competencies and experience to lead our services.

You will already be working at Consultant level or be ready to take this step. You will come from a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist background and have experience of working at a Band C (NHS) equivalent level to provide regional leadership of services and people in Birmingham.  In this role you will develop our psychology services and psychosocial interventions offer to support people experiencing difficulties associated with drug and alcohol use. 

We want all of our services to be Psychologically Informed. We support people experiencing difficulties associated with a range of challenges, most frequently including drug and alcohol use. We want to focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2017.

You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and your focus will be the excellent delivery of recommended specialised interventions. These form the primary Job Plan for all Psychology positions, contributing to supporting recovery and are detailed within our Job Descriptions.

Change Grow Live Salary Scale - CGL scale 64 to 70

Full time Salary: £72, £82,841.41 per annum

Location – covering a service/s – Birmingham

  • Based from a local delivery hub – One of the Birmingham hubs
  • Contracted Hours – 18.75 per week
  • Category – Clinical
  • Type of contract – Permanent

*please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours

Responsibilities

This is a very exciting time for the organisation and Psychology within it, we will need you to see the bigger picture and support us to adapt the recommended models to meet people's needs. For you to bring your very best to this role you will need to be an open-minded leader of Psychology and Psychological Therapies.

You will be joining a brilliant national team of Psychologists and qualified counsellors; we also have a range of highly committed and passionate staff who deliver psychosocial interventions – whether on a 1-1 basis or in groups. Monthly clinical supervision will be from our Head of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, or their designated leads. Our teams are vibrant, diverse, and multidisciplinary – you would be well supported  

If you are compassionate, authentic, inspiring and you want to make a difference, working in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and creativity to achieve the best for people, we would love to hear from you.

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Dr Wai-Ling Bickerton, Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Email: wai-;   Tel.:

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

National Assessors from the British Psychological Society (BPS)/the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK) will be part of the selection panel for this post.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we'd love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)CGL Consultant Clinical Psychologist (£72, £82,841.41)
ILW / OLW /FringeN/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Interview Date12/12/2025
Closing Date24/11/2025
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:David Brackenbury |
 This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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