Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri. 09:00 - 17:00 with occasional planned out of hrs support)
- Job ref
- 301-LBG-25-7058495
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Flanagan Centre, St Georges Hospital
- Town
- Stafford
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist - IST - South Staffs
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
JOB TITLE: Clinical Psychologist
BAND: 8a
37.5 hours per week
The role can be offered at band 8a for suitably qualified and experienced candidates or as a band 7/8a Preceptorship for newly qualified psychologists. Current 3rd year Doctoral Trainees graduating in 2025 are welcome to apply.
Now is the time for you to join our Intensive Support Team in South Staffordshire.
To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation to non-psychology colleagues and other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
To use research skills in audit and policy development within the area covered by the service.
To further contribute to the service by teaching, publishing research and providing clinical supervision to Psychologists undertaking doctoral clinical and/or counselling psychology training, assistant psychologists, community nurses and other members of the multi-disciplinary team as required.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist clinical psychology input to South Staffordshire’s Intensive Support Team (IST). Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to offer effective and evidence based interventions with the aim of improving quality of life, autonomy and psychological wellbeing; and reducing the risk of placement breakdowns, inappropriate admissions to specialist hospital and the use of restrictive practices.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the IST, based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. Psychological formulations will then contribute significantly to the development of detailed PBS plans and risk assessments etc. Clinical work will take place across all settings and agencies.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and management of people with learning disabilities who may have mental health problems and/or complex behavioural needs and/or Autistic Spectrum Diagnoses. There will be a need to; adjust and refine psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be responsible for psychological input to South Staffordshire’s Intensive Support Team (IST) as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will take the lead in developing psychology inputs within the IST, linking in with IST clinicians and the wider Community Learning Disability Team. Propose and contribute to service development specifically within the IST but also the wider Learning Disabilities Service under the guidance of the Professional Lead and Local Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service user’s care; and to contribute to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care, to the benefit of all users of the service.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert for further detail.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psycho-pathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Trained in clinical supervision of doctoral trainees (completed all required STAR Training).
- Currently registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, seeing service users presenting with a wide variety of mental health and behavioural needs in a range of settings. Offering evidence-based psychological interventions and adhering to appropriate best practice and professional guidance as a qualified clinician.
- Experience of working therapeutically with services users with a learning disability and with people on the autistic continuum; including those presenting with behavioural needs which challenges services.
- Undertaking multi-dimensional risk assessment, developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
- Experience of clinical supervision of others.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in the assessment, formulation, and treatment of people with learning disabilities.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary and Psychology team and form good working relationships with other professionals.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gary Worrall
- Job title
- Clinical Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812 491527
- Additional information
Or
Dr Gail Thomas, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Director and Professional Lead for Learning Disability Psychological Services;
Tel: 01952 457417
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