Counselling/Clinical Psychologist Band 8b

Counselling/Clinical Psychologist Band 8b

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced Principle Clinical Psychologist who wants to make a real impact within our Crisis & Home Treatment teams in Telford?

About you: You will be an experienced Clinical / Counselling Psychologist who will provide expert psychological assessment and reports to referrers of people with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with codes of professional ethics.

You will be offering clinical supervision and teaching to the MDT, along with staff support and reflective practice on an ad-hoc basis. There will be opportunities to supervise assistant psychologists.

The post will entail working both directly and indirectly with service users referred to the crisis and home treatment team. You will be carrying out / supervising assessment, formulation and brief intervention work with individuals and/or their systems.

Main duties of the job

The post will also entail significant elements of consultation, reflective practice, staff well-being, team formulation, and training.

You will be supported via clinical supervision by the urgent care pathway consultant clinical psychologist and managerial supervision by the team manager. There are pathway psychology meetings and a twice monthly regional psychology meeting attended by adult mental health, our children and young people teams, and specialist services psychologists.

This post will maintain close links with other psychology colleagues within the urgent care pathway (inpatients, Crisis / home treatment, and Liaison mental health). Across the pathway, we will have 4 practitioner psychologists, trainee associate psychologists, and assistant psychologists with the possibility of further expansion.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Options for flexible working.
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
• Free car parking at all trust sites.
• Free flu vaccination every year.
• Attractive relocation package.
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job responsibilities

For further information relating to this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy).
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

Experience

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including psychosis, across the whole life course.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.