Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

NHS; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS trust as a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist, providing vital psychological services to individuals with complex issues related to substance misuse and mental health. You will contribute to a multi-disciplinary team, offering assessments, therapeutic interventions, and support to staff in a rewarding role that enhances community wellbeing.

Benefits

Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Flexible working options

Up to 27 days annual leave

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support

Free car parking at all trust sites

Salary sacrifice for cars and bikes

Free flu vaccinations

Citizens Advice support via Hardship Fund

Qualifications

• Registered clinical psychologist with post-doctoral training.
• Experience with complex mental health issues and psychosis.
• Demonstrable experience in multi-disciplinary settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert psychological assessment and therapy.
• Formulate and implement intervention plans.
• Manage a specialist caseload autonomously.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Psychological Therapy

Risk Assessment

Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration

Education

Health Professions Council Registration

Post-Doctoral Training in Psychology

Job description

Go back Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

The closing date is 27 July 2025

The Shropshire the Reset/ Rough Sleepers service has an opportunity for Psychologist to provide clinical services directly to people with complex alcohol/substance misuse and mental health problems and homelessness and their families/carers and supporting the service and its staff.

You will use strategies that enhance the psychological well-being of people who use this service and their families and/or carers. You will be expected to participate in the multi-agency RESET meetings to provide guidance, signposting and clinical knowledge to the MDT.

You will provide assessment, formulation and trauma informed psychological understanding and therapeutic interventions. In addition, you will also provide reflective supervision for the service alongside any debriefing and staff support that may be required.

You will provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the Substance Misuse pathway to adults, their families or carers. To work with clients alone at the team base, in local NHS settings or other care environments, or at their home as necessary. Within this to be able to communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.

Main duties of the job

• To provide expert psychological assessment and reports, both written and verbal, to referrers of people with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with codes of professional ethics
• Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological therapy to an exceptionally high standard to service users with a range of mental health problems.
• To formulate and implement plans for formal psychological intervention and/or management of a client's psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To manage a specialist caseload autonomously and within the criteria directed by the Trust. To make difficult decisions about priorities and clinical issues
• To act as a care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA.
• To risk assess individual clients, especially those who have challenging and complex needs and to provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

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
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• 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 vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

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.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please refer to the attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

clinical suitability and skills

• post-holder is registered with the health Professions Council and is eligible for registration as a chartered clinical psychologist.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Assessed significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including psychosis, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust