Job summary
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.
What we provide: We have close links and offer trainee placements for the Staffordshire Doctorate course and Keele TCAPS training programme.
Please speak to Hope.Lloyd@mpft.nhs.uk to discuss this package or others our Trust could offer
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 there is 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.
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme
* Generous maternity, paternity, 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 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.
Date posted: 10 April 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £62,215 to £72,293 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 301-KM-25-7008815-A
Job responsibilities
For further information relating to this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy)
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience Essential
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including psychosis, across the whole life course
Desirable
* 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Hall Court, Hall Park Way, Overdale, Telford TF3 4NF
Employer's website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk
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