Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of working in a Health sector voluntary sector or undertaking local engagement work.
- Experience
Experience of working with client groups with serious mental health problems.
- Qualifications
Honours Degree in Psychology – Single or Joint honours (with substantial relevant experience in research or clinical activities if the award received is 2:2 or less).
- Qualifications
Completion of accredited Clinical Associate in Psychology apprenticeship MSc.
- Qualifications
Evidence of training/CPD to develop knowledge and theory relevant to work in the specialism.
- Qualifications
Eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society via qualification recognition or by alternative route.
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Some experience of using psychological test equipment for use in formal testing situations
- Experience
Experience of working in a multi-professional team
Job overview
Are you a Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck.
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Lichfield & Burntwood Adult Integrated Mental Health Team - based at St Michaels Court, Lichfield.
As a qualified CAP, you'll join a team that works in close partnership with Staffordshire Police and Mental Health Services, and you’ll join a Trust that puts people at the heart of what we do.
Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
It's a career that you can take pride in and enjoy, and together we can make life better for our communities.
Main duties of the job
Working in a skilled and motivated adult community mental health team that values a range of interventions and support to help people in their recovery journey.
Delivering a high-quality service to service users and their families as part of a collaborative and supportive team.
Key-working of an identified caseload with access to regular and robust supervision.
Delivering assessment, formulation and psychologically informed interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to service users experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties. Interventions are individual and group.
You will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, including risk, and contributing to; the formulation of the person’s needs and the development of a relevant plan based upon the person’s negotiated goals and relevant evidence-based interventions. You will, in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team, provide interventions to support the person to meet their agreed goals and coordinate and/ or participate in the review of progress towards those goals, utilising recommended outcome measures, involving the service user and any identified carer throughout the clinical pathway.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with us at MPFT:
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Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube or copy and paste into browser to watch https://bit.ly/44KxWXs
MPFT - Adult Mental Health Services South Staffs - YouTube or copy and paste into browser to watch https://bit.ly/3K3B7ju
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.
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This advert is for Clinical Associate in Psychology - IMHT Lichfield with Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Stafford, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Sep 2026.
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