Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

at  Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

We are very happy to be recruiting for this Band 8a Psychologist post working in our Liaison Mental Health Teams as part of our exciting redevelopment of psychology in the Urgent Care Pathway.
The successful applicant will work alongside a psychologically minded team of Nurses, Medics and Allied Health Professionals across two acute hospitals in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (Princess Royal Hospital and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital).
It is envisaged that the post will entail working both directly and indirectly with service users presenting in the acute hospital with primary or concurrent mental health difficulties. You will be carrying out and supervising assessment, formulation and brief intervention work with individuals and / or their systems. The post will also entail significant elements of consultation, reflective practice, staff well-being, team formulation and training.
This post will maintain close links with other psychology colleagues within the urgent care pathway (Inpatients, Crisis / Home treatment and Liaison Mental Health teams). Across the pathway we will have 4 Practitioner Psychologists, Trainee Associate Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists with the possibility of further expansion in the future.
We have close links and offer trainee placements for the Clinical and Counselling Doctorate programmes in Wolverhampton and Staffordshire and also the Trainee Clinical Associate in Psychology training programme at Keele.
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.
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 and 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 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 vaccinations every year
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.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and job specification
Please contact Dr. Neil Jones Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Hope Lloyd, Clinical Matron in the Urgent Care pathway for further information or an informal chat about this post.

Please refer the Job description for details