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Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust · 2 weeks ago

Clinical / Counselling Psychologist B7 (on preceptorship to 8a)

Shrewsbury, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is offering a B7- B8a Development post in their Liaison Mental Health Team. The successful applicant will provide specialist clinical psychology services, working directly with service users experiencing mental health difficulties in various care settings.

Health CareMental HealthSocialWellness

Responsibilities

To provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the Urgent Care service, to adults their families or carers. To work with clients alone at the team base or other care environments, or at their home as necessary

To communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues

To be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations and semi- structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, interpreting complex data and giving feedback effectively and with sensitively

To be skilled in risk assessment and management. The post holder will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times

Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological interventions to service users with a range of mental health problems

To formulate and implement plans for formal psychological intervention and/or management of a client’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings

Qualification

Clinical PsychologyHCPC RegistrationRisk AssessmentPsychological InterventionsContinuing Professional DevelopmentPost-registration TrainingNHS ExperiencePost-doctoral Training

Required

Relevant experience in a clinical setting

HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist

Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC / BPS. ACP

Preferred

Post registration training

Relevant experience in an NHS setting

Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Benefits

Excellent NHS Pension scheme

Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)

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 vaccinations every year

Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

Company

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 June 2018 following a merger between South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust.

Founded in 2018