Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Intensive Life Skills
The closing date is 07 July 2026
The Intensive Life Skills service is seeking an experienced Consultant Clinical / Counselling psychologist and clinical leader to join the team at a time of exciting change and service development.
The Intensive Life Skills service is a multi-disciplinary community mental health team providing assessment and intervention for adults who experience the complex emotional and personality difficulties, associated with adverse experiences and trauma.
We are a specialist community team providing assessment, formulation and intervention using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework. Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase emotional, social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy.
You will have an interest in working with people with complex emotional and personality difficulties, to contribute and enhance the professional psychological care of our service users and clinical professional and strategic psychological leadership for Intensive Life Skills (CEN Intensive Treatment Pathway, Shropshire Telford and Wrekin).
There is an emphasis on team based multi-disciplinary care and decision making. We value compassionate reflective approaches, supporting collaborative ways of working alongside service users.
Main duties of the job
- Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients with severe and enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities which include significant challenging behaviours and risk of physical aggression.
- In agreement with Head of Mental Health and Professional lead for Mental Health Psychological Services and in collaboration with other locality Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, to provide clinical leadership and direction in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin for those working with people with Complex Emotional Needs and/or to act as lead within ILS.
- To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
- To provide expert advice, clinical supervision and training in working with CEN to colleagues within ILS and to other healthcare professionals across the organisation.
- To be a Senior Psychologist within STW Care Group and to provide knowledge around CEN pathway.
- To undertake co-ordination and management of research and development projects within ILS.
- To provide clinical leadership in the continual development and provision of excellence to CEN service users across the locality.
- To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
- To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
Qualifications
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- HPC registration as a clinical/counselling psychologist with Chartered Status
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Registration with BPS
- Training and experience in the delivery of Trauma informed care and treatment modalities; EMDR, NET CBT-T
Experience
- Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team.
- Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
- Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession
- Working at a strategic level
- Experience of developing, delivering, supporting and supervising/managing the delivery of EB/NICE recommended CEN group treatment programmes
Skills
- Evidence-based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment and risk management
- The care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour.
- Provide effective clinical leadership.
- Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
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
