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Counselling/Clinical Psychologist Band 8b
The closing date is 09 October 2025
Are you an experienced an 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.
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. We have close links and offer trainee placements for the Staffordshire Doctorate course and Keele TCAPS training programme
About us
Come and work with us at our award-winning NHS Trust, leading the way for trying new and better ways of working to help improve life for our local communities.
We have around 9,000 staff who provide physical and mental healthcare, support for people with learning disabilities, and adult social care across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. We also run regional and national services, including help for new parents (perinatal care), eating disorders, forensic services, sexual health, and support for people in prison with mental health, drug, or alcohol problems.
We offer great career development for both clinical and non-clinical roles, with ongoing training and support to help you learn and grow.We are 'United in our Uniqueness' and committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can be themselves, no matter their background or identity. We want our staff to feel supported and valued, and we aim to build a team that reflects the communities we serve. Together, we can make sure every voice is heard, and every difference is respected.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
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.
Job responsibilities
For further information relating to this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy)
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including psychosis, across the whole life course
* 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.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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