Main area: Adult Mental Health - Psychology
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri 9-5)
Job ref: 301-JC-25-6937374
Employer: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Foundation House, St Georges Hospital
Town: Stafford
Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/02/2025 23:59
Clinical Psychologist - IMHT Stafford (Open to band 7 preceptorship)
Job overview
Band 7 Preceptorship or 8a Counselling/Clinical/Forensic Psychologist Come and be part of a supportive and friendly community, adult mental health team based in Stafford who are looking to welcome a new psychologist. We are pleased to offer either a band 7 preceptorship to a newly qualified or soon to be qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, or a band 8a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist post to an experienced psychologist. Please note: If we receive a high number of applicants, this advert will be closed before the scheduled closing date. Main duties of the job
You will be joining multi-disciplinary teams that value psychology input. Multi-disciplinary team working is central to the role. We are establishing a formulation led programme of interventions including Trauma Stabilisation and Hearing Voices group programmes as well as individual work. You will be involved in providing teaching, supervision, and consultation to other team members as well as working directly with service users and their families. You will take a lead in the development and provision of additional psychologically informed programmes along with MDT colleagues. Working for our organisation
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. 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. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are an integrated team made up of a range of professionals who are passionate about implementing psychologically informed care through shared goals and initiatives. Psychology is embedded in the teams through Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Clinical Associates in Psychology, and Assistant Psychologists to deliver evidence-based individual and group therapies. We also support the team to deliver psychologically informed care through consultation, training, supervision, and service development. As the psychological professionals in the team, we work together closely, which includes regular psychology meetings to offer shared reflective space and opportunities for learning and development. Psychologists are part of the leadership both in the service and the wider Trust. The development of psychological services throughout the trust is supported through regular meetings, supervision, and an annual conference for psychological services. You will work closely with other psychology staff who use a range of approaches including CBT, EMDR, ISTDP, CFT, ACT, and MBT. We have strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctorate course at Staffordshire University and regularly offer trainee placements and teaching. There are frequent opportunities to develop our clinical and leadership skills. The Trust has robust in-house training in a range of areas including staging the full range of accredited EMDR training and the leadership training. Training and interests are further supported through a range of supervision and interest groups including in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Therapy (ISTDP), EMDR, and Compassion-Focused Therapy. We are actively supported in our development through a robust and collaborative appraisal process. Applicants should have previous experience of working in mental health teams in the NHS and knowledge and skills in working with people who present with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Person specification
Qualifications
Post-holder is registered with the Health Professions Council (HCPC) and eligible for BPS 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. Post-graduate training and accreditation in psychological approaches, courses accredited by the BPS, BABCP, EMDR Association Europe, or equivalent. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional bodies. Experience
Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist at a highly specialist level and extensive experience of supervision of others. Experience of working with a range of client presentations, including experience working with people who have a diagnosis of psychosis and/or severe mental health problems, across a range of care settings. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and as a supervisor of others. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts. For example NHS, MoD. You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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Job overview
Band 7 Preceptorship or 8a Counselling/Clinical/Forensic Psychologist Come and be part of a supportive and friendly community, adult mental health team based in Stafford who are looking to welcome a new psychologist. We are pleased to offer either a band 7 preceptorship to a newly qualified or soon to be qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, or a band 8a Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist post to an experienced psychologist. Please note: If we receive a high number of applicants, this advert will be closed before the scheduled closing date. Main duties of the job
You will be joining multi-disciplinary teams that value psychology input. Multi-disciplinary team working is central to the role. We are establishing a formulation led programme of interventions including Trauma Stabilisation and Hearing Voices group programmes as well as individual work. You will be involved in providing teaching, supervision, and consultation to other team members as well as working directly with service users and their families. You will take a lead in the development and provision of additional psychologically informed programmes along with MDT colleagues. Working for our organisation
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. 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. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are an integrated team made up of a range of professionals who are passionate about implementing psychologically informed care through shared goals and initiatives. Psychology is embedded in the teams through Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Clinical Associates in Psychology, and Assistant Psychologists to deliver evidence-based individual and group therapies. We also support the team to deliver psychologically informed care through consultation, training, supervision, and service development. As the psychological professionals in the team, we work together closely, which includes regular psychology meetings to offer shared reflective space and opportunities for learning and development. Psychologists are part of the leadership both in the service and the wider Trust. The development of psychological services throughout the trust is supported through regular meetings, supervision, and an annual conference for psychological services. You will work closely with other psychology staff who use a range of approaches including CBT, EMDR, ISTDP, CFT, ACT, and MBT. We have strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctorate course at Staffordshire University and regularly offer trainee placements and teaching. There are frequent opportunities to develop our clinical and leadership skills. The Trust has robust in-house training in a range of areas including staging the full range of accredited EMDR training and the leadership training. Training and interests are further supported through a range of supervision and interest groups including in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Therapy (ISTDP), EMDR, and Compassion-Focused Therapy. We are actively supported in our development through a robust and collaborative appraisal process. Applicants should have previous experience of working in mental health teams in the NHS and knowledge and skills in working with people who present with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. Person specification
Qualifications
Post-holder is registered with the Health Professions Council (HCPC) and eligible for BPS 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. Post-graduate training and accreditation in psychological approaches, courses accredited by the BPS, BABCP, EMDR Association Europe, or equivalent. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional bodies. Experience
Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist at a highly specialist level and extensive experience of supervision of others. Experience of working with a range of client presentations, including experience working with people who have a diagnosis of psychosis and/or severe mental health problems, across a range of care settings. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and as a supervisor of others. Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts. For example NHS, MoD. You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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