Job summary
We are seeking enthusiastic and committed Clinical/Counselling Psychologists (Band 7/8a) to work within our Trust. We have an exciting range of preceptorship opportunities across a wide range of services, including adult mental health. These opportunities are available in multi-disciplinary clinical teams based in various locations across the wide geographical area covered by our Trust, which spans Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin; Stoke & Staffordshire, with some provision across the UK. Posts are permanent and full time, though part time and job sharing is possible. Applications are also welcome from those completing doctoral training in 2023.
Main duties of the job
As part of a thriving psychological professions community, post holders will join one of our multi-disciplinary teams within the specialisms described above. In these roles, you will provide a psychological service to the communities who use our services, including providing specialist psychological assessments, formulations, interpretation and intervention. You will also be a valued member of the team, contributing to the team's functions, providing judgements to inform service provision and supervising/supporting the psychological work of others.
You will have opportunities to develop a field of expertise within the service, contributing to training, supervision and governance.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Dr Ben Rogers (Director of Psychological Services) Ben.Rogers@mpft.nhs.uk
About us
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, 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 annual 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 vaccination 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description.
You will be supported and clinically supervised professionally by senior psychology colleagues, both in your day-to-day working and in your continued professional development.
Your preceptorship with be supported by following a preceptorship framework, which will specify areas of development and provide a structure for discussing progress throughout the preceptorship. Preceptorship length can vary, though is often 2 years, and progression onto B8a is dependent upon successful completion of the agreed preceptorship objectives
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description.
You will be supported and clinically supervised professionally by senior psychology colleagues, both in your day-to-day working and in your continued professional development.
Your preceptorship with be supported by following a preceptorship framework, which will specify areas of development and provide a structure for discussing progress throughout the preceptorship. Preceptorship length can vary, though is often 2 years, and progression onto B8a is dependent upon successful completion of the agreed preceptorship objectives
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- It is a condition of employment that the post-holder is registered with the Health Professions Council and is eligible for registration as a Chartered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy)
- Postgraduate professional doctorate or equivalent relating to psychological services or equivalent as accredited by relevant professional body
- Current registration/accreditation with appropriate body with current practising certificate
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist.
- Experience of working with trauma.
- Experience of working with families.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with third sector and/or supported housing providers.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of working clinically with people present with challenging behaviours, and/or people who have communication difficulties.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- A clear grasp of the concept of mental health/personal recovery
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Ability to meet the travelling requirements of the job
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- A passion and enthusiasm for working with people experiencing complex mental health/health problems and their families and carers
- A desire to champion and enable mental health/personal recovery
- Able to demonstrate a positive and non-judgemental attitude towards service users and their family and carers.
- Willing to reflect on own practice and to learn from this.
- Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary environment, respect others and to contain the complex demands and conflicts that this can engender.
- Ability to develop productive therapeutic relationships with a range of service-users.
- Ability to contain the emotional stress of working with clients who are extremely distressed or volatile.
- Ability to deal with organisational stress and to effectively manage own time and resources.
- Ability to deliver sustained effort and concentration to produce demanding pieces of work.
- Ability to sit and to concentrate for prolonged periods in order to deliver sessions of client based work.
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health/physical health problems
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- It is a condition of employment that the post-holder is registered with the Health Professions Council and is eligible for registration as a Chartered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist.
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy)
- Postgraduate professional doctorate or equivalent relating to psychological services or equivalent as accredited by relevant professional body
- Current registration/accreditation with appropriate body with current practising certificate
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body.
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and intervention, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical/counselling psychologist.
- Experience of working with trauma.
- Experience of working with families.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working with third sector and/or supported housing providers.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of working clinically with people present with challenging behaviours, and/or people who have communication difficulties.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- A clear grasp of the concept of mental health/personal recovery
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Ability to meet the travelling requirements of the job
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- A passion and enthusiasm for working with people experiencing complex mental health/health problems and their families and carers
- A desire to champion and enable mental health/personal recovery
- Able to demonstrate a positive and non-judgemental attitude towards service users and their family and carers.
- Willing to reflect on own practice and to learn from this.
- Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary environment, respect others and to contain the complex demands and conflicts that this can engender.
- Ability to develop productive therapeutic relationships with a range of service-users.
- Ability to contain the emotional stress of working with clients who are extremely distressed or volatile.
- Ability to deal with organisational stress and to effectively manage own time and resources.
- Ability to deliver sustained effort and concentration to produce demanding pieces of work.
- Ability to sit and to concentrate for prolonged periods in order to deliver sessions of client based work.
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental health/physical health problems
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
