Counselling/Clinical Psychologist Band 8b
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Job Overview
Are you an experienced Principal 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 providing expert psychological assessments and reports to referrers for individuals with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with professional ethics.
You will offer clinical supervision and teaching to the MDT, along with staff support and reflective practice on an ad-hoc basis. Opportunities to supervise assistant psychologists are available.
The role involves working directly and indirectly with service users referred to the crisis and home treatment team, conducting/supervising assessments, formulation, and brief interventions 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 other opportunities within our Trust.
Main duties of the job
The role includes consultation, reflective practice, staff well-being, team formulation, and training. You will receive clinical supervision from the urgent care pathway consultant clinical psychologist and managerial supervision from the team manager. There are pathway psychology meetings and bi-monthly regional psychology meetings involving various teams.
This position maintains close links with other psychology colleagues within the urgent care pathway, including inpatient, crisis/home treatment, and liaison mental health teams. The pathway comprises 4 practitioner psychologists, trainee associate psychologists, and assistant psychologists, with potential for expansion.
Working for our organisation
Joining Team MPFT means supporting your communities, with benefits including:
* Career development opportunities
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
* Flexible working options
* Up to 33 days annual leave plus additional purchase options
* Health and Wellbeing resources
* Travel time reimbursement for community team roles
* Lease car options, mileage reimbursement, salary sacrifice bikes, free parking, annual flu vaccination, and attractive relocation packages
* Support from Citizens Advice and a Hardship Fund
We pride ourselves on being a diverse and inclusive organisation, with staff networks to support inclusivity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy)
* Post-doctoral training in specialized psychological practice areas
Experience
* Experience working with diverse client groups, including psychosis, across the lifespan
Desirable: Experience assessing and treating clients across various care settings.
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