Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering healthcare organization in Shrewsbury is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist to provide expert psychological services to individuals facing complex mental health challenges. Candidates must be registered psychologists with significant clinical experience. The role offers generous leave and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Flexible working options

Health and well-being resources

Up to 33 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a qualified clinical psychologist with diverse client groups.
• Ability to manage a specialist caseload independently.
• Experience in risk assessment and management.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert psychological assessments to clients.
• Formulate and implement psychological intervention plans.
• Act as care coordinator under enhanced CPA.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Therapeutic interventions

Education

Registered with the Health Professions Council

Post-doctoral training

Job description

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist for the Shropshire Reset/ Rough Sleepers service.

The closing date is 20 October 2025. Please note that this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

The successful candidate will provide clinical services directly to people with complex alcohol/substance misuse and mental health problems, homelessness, and their families/carers, while supporting the service and its staff.

Key responsibilities include using strategies to enhance psychological well-being, participating in multi-agency meetings, and providing assessment, formulation, and trauma-informed psychological understanding and therapeutic interventions.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert psychological assessment and reports to referrers of people with psychological problems.
• Offer expert formulation and psychological therapy to service users with mental health problems.
• Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological intervention and/or management of clients' psychological difficulties.
• Manage a specialist caseload autonomously and make difficult decisions about priorities and clinical issues.
• Act as a care coordinator, taking responsibility for planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA.
• Risk assess individual clients, especially those with challenging and complex needs, and provide advice to professionals on risk assessment and management.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return, we will support you with career development, generous leave, flexible working options, and extensive health and wellbeing resources.

• 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.

Person Specification

Clinical suitability and skills

• Registered with the Health Professions Council and eligible for registration as a chartered clinical psychologist.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice.
• Significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist with a wide variety of client groups.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

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

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