Senior Assistant Psychologist in Family Safeguarding

NHS; Telford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in Telford is looking for a Senior Assistant Psychologist to support the Family Safeguarding Team. This role involves providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions for families facing complex challenges. Candidates need an honors degree in psychology and prior experience in psychology or mental health services. The position offers diverse benefits, including flexible working options and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Up to 27 days annual leave

Health and Wellbeing support

Salary sacrifice car and bike options

Free flu vaccinations

Free car parking

Qualifications

• Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist is required.
• Experience working with applied psychologists.
• Experience of research methods or service evaluation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Support Psychologists to provide psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions.
• Assist with clinically related administration.
• Develop and deliver group interventions for parents.

Skills

Experience of work with psychology and/or mental health clients

Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings

Research skills

Understanding of professional standards/issues

Education

Honours degree or higher in psychology

Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Job description

Senior Assistant Psychologist in Family Safeguarding

Go back Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 11 December 2025

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn.

Telford & Wrekin Council is working in partnership with MPFT to revolutionise child and family protection in the borough. The ground-breaking Family Safeguarding model brings together all the professionals we need under one roof, to provide intensive support to parents to address the substance misuse, mental health and domestic abuse that place children at risk of harm. Your role will be to support Psychologists and multiagency team: the Family Safeguarding Team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations and to utilise research skills for audit, service development and research. You will be responsible for delivering a psychology assessment and treatment service and support the multi-disciplinary teams to apply psychological models and evidence based practice in their work.

Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist is required for this role. The post is fixed term for 10 months. For more information about the role, you are warmly welcomed to contact the Lead Psychologist for Family Safeguarding, Dr Kiran Sidhu [e-mail]

Main duties of the job

• The post-holder will support Psychologists to provide psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions for families.
• The post-holder will work with the multi-agency team and will assist with clinically related administration.
• The post-holder will use research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
• The post-holder will compile and disseminate relevant resources.
• The post-holder will work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleagues.
• The post holder will promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families, carers and other external agencies.
• The post-holder will assist in the development and delivery of group interventions for parents with mental health difficulties delivering evidence based psychological therapies (such as cognitive behaviour therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy) according to the service user's presenting difficulties.
• The post-holder will receive regular clinical professional supervision from senior qualified psychologists in the service.

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) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time traveling 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)

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.

Please note: It is expected that a high volume of applications will be received for this post. Please do apply as soon as possible if interested in the role, as the closing date may change if sufficient applications are received.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Honours degree or higher in psychology
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Experience

• Experience of work with psychology and/or mental health clients
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings and multi-agency settings
• Experience of research methods, audit or other service evaluation techniques
• Has worked with applied psychologists and has an awareness of professional standards/issues.
• Significant experience working as an Assistant Psychologist or equivalent role

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.

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust