Clinical Psychologist

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Applied Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) to join the Neuropsychology Service in Shrewsbury. You will manage a specialist caseload for adults with acquired or traumatic brain injury and various neurological conditions.

The role involves providing expert psychological assessment and intervention, offering consultation and training to the multidisciplinary team, and contributing to research, audits and policy development.

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology with HCPC eligibility.
• Post-qualification training or short courses relevant to the post.
• CPD requirements aligned with HCPC registration.

Responsibilities

• Manage a specialist caseload delivering psychological assessment and intervention for adults with acquired neurological conditions.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, consultation and training to colleagues within the MDT.
• Contribute to service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• Offer clinical/research supervision and promote psychologically informed practice.

Skills

Neuro rehabilitation knowledge

Clinical consultation

Supervision of staff

Communication skills

Teaching/training

Education

Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology

HCPC registration eligibility

Job description

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Applied Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) to join our Neuropsychology Service within the Shropshire Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team, based in Shrewsbury.

Main duties of the job

This role offers the successful applicant the opportunity to manage a specialist caseload, delivering high‑quality psychological assessment and intervention for adults adjusting to life following acquired or traumatic brain injury, as well as a range of neurological conditions. You will work therapeutically with individuals experiencing cognitive, emotional, behavioural, and psychosocial changes, helping to support recovery, adjustment, and quality of life.

The postholder will also provide specialist psychological advice, consultation, and training to colleagues and other professionals within the multidisciplinary team, contributing to integrated and holistic care.

In addition, there will be opportunities to contribute to service evaluation, audit, research, and policy development. The role includes offering appropriate clinical and/or research supervision, supporting the development of peers and less experienced psychologists, and actively promoting psychologically informed practice across the service.

You will join a friendly, supportive, and dynamic team of psychological professionals, working closely with Consultant Clinical Psychologists and fellow Psychologist colleagues. The wider multidisciplinary team includes specialist Neuro Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, and Neuro Physiotherapists, ensuring a collaborative and comprehensive approach to neurorehabilitation.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person specification

Training and Qualificatons

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) providing eligibility for registration with Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Evidence of further post qualification training /short courses relevant to the post
• Evidence of continuing professional development in line with the requirements of HCPC registration

Experience

• Significant experience working with a wide variety of clients with acquired neurological disorders across the full range of care settings
• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Post qualification experience of working within neuro rehab settings
• Experience of supervision of pre-qualification psychologists or non-psychological professionals
• Experience of teaching/training with psychologists or non-psychological professionals
• Experience of working clinically within multidisciplinary teams
• Experience of audit/research/evaluation
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for a patient’s psychological care and treatment

Knowledge and Skills

• Specialist knowledge and skills working in adult neuro rehab settings; understanding the systemic issues concerned and the specialised psychological interventions necessary to work in this field.
• Well-developed skills and experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups using a variety of models
• Well-developed skills in providing supervision to both psychological and non-psychological colleagues
• Advanced skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge and skills in teaching/training using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Other

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700. For a limited number of clinical posts (listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.