Assistant Psychologist in Family Safeguarding

Job summary

Following a £2m grant from the department for Education's innovation programme, Telford & Wrekin Council is working in partnership with MPFT to revolutionise child and family protection in the borough. The ground-breaking Family Safeguarding model brings together all the professionals we need under one roof, to provide intensive support to parents to address the substance misuse, mental health and domestic abuse that place children at risk of harm. Your role will be to support Psychologists and multiagency team: the Family Safeguarding Team, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations and to utilise research skills for audit, service development and research. You will be responsible for delivering a psychology assessment and treatment service and support the multi-disciplinary teams to apply psychological models and evidenced based practice in their work. For more information about the role, you are warmly welcomed to contact the Lead Psychologist for Family Safeguarding, Dr Kiran Sidhu Kiran.Sidhu@mpft.nhs.uk

Please note this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role.

Main duties of the job

o The post-holder will support Psychologists to provide psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions for families.

o The post-holder will work with the multi-agency team and will assist with clinically related administration.

o The post-holder will use research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

o The post-holder will compile and disseminate relevant resources.

o The post-holder will work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleagues.

o The post holder will promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families, carers and other external agencies.

o The post-holder will assist in the development and delivery of group interventions for parents with mental health difficulties delivering evidence based psychological therapies (such as cognitive behaviour therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy) according to the service user's presenting difficulties.

o The post-holder will receive regular clinical professional supervision from senior qualified psychologists in the service.

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 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