Job overview

We have an opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist B4 post in an established Primary Care Psychology Service in South - West Shropshire, based in Ludlow.

The Primary Care Service mainly provides a Group Programme, but also assessment and formulation with some individual intervention for people with serious mental health problems as part of Mental Health Transformation. You would be working with Clinical Associates in Psychology and Peer Support Workers and will receive weekly supervision from Clinical / Counselling Psychologists. You will be linking in with the wider South Shropshire Community MDT.

We have an active Assistant Psychologist’s Group, regular Care Group Psychology meetings and a strong focus on supervision, development and training.

You will work alongside the Clinical Associate in Psychology and qualified psychologists offering psychological and clinical input into Primary Care in order to meet the needs of people in primary care with complex psychological needs and provide support to general practice and mental health staff working in primary care.

You will deliver and further develop a group programme for Primary Care Psychology, and liaise with third sector groups to meet needs of local area.

You will employ research skills for audit, policy and service evaluation and development and research.

Main duties of the job

• To support and enhance psychological care by assisting qualified practitioners, Assistant Psychologists and Peer Support Workers,  in the delivery and evaluation of cost-effective services that meet Trust and Directorate objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and carer needs and expectations. To develop and deliver a group programme for PCN/ Primary Care Psychology
• To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, providing psychological assessment, formulation and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
• To work with clients and staff of the primary care and secondary care mental health services. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

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
• 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)

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 be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.  

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications