# Clinical/Counselling Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinicalcounselling-psychologist/ebba0fae-4289-4da9-8206-79f218b9837c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinicalcounselling-psychologist/ebba0fae-4289-4da9-8206-79f218b9837c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St George's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Hours taken over 3 days per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T10:36:07.351Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Rugeley/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/ClinicalCounselling_Psychologist/ClinicalCounselling_Psychologist-v8341216 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8341216?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The CYP Autism team in Rugeley has a wonderful opportunity for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join them working 22.5 hours per week In consultation with the Service Leads for the CYP Autism Service you will provide a highly specialist psychology service to Children and Young People with Autism, or possible autism, diagnoses in South Staffordshire. In the role you will be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological input across three main areas: - Autism assessment - Highly specialist advice, support & intervention to CYP with a diagnosis of autism & their families. - Highly specialist advice, support & intervention to young people (19-25) with an existing diagnosis of autism & an Education & Health Care Plan. This role will incorporate highly complex psychological assessments leading to psychological formulations of distress; interpretation and opinion; forming judgements to inform service provision and providing necessary psychological interventions. You will be responsible for the clinical supervision of less experienced psychologists & assistant psychologists, supervising & supporting the psychological assessment & therapy provided by other clinical members of the CYP Autism service who provide psychologically based care & intervention. To include the provision of training placements for Psychologists in Training as required, following gaining the necessary post-qualification requirements (STAR training, requisite post-qualification experience). ### Main duties of the job - This role involves highly complex assessments leading to psychological formulations, development of care plans, the delivery of interventions to this population and use of outcome measures to evaluate service effectiveness. - To provide highly specialist diagnostic assessments of children and young people to include standardised assessments such as ADOS 2 and ADI-R. - To work as a member of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT). The psychologist will present complex assessment information in MDT meetings and work with colleagues in MDT to agree whether referred children and young people meet diagnostic criteria for autism. - The role will also entail offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures. - There will be an opportunity to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. - You will be required to work in clinic and community settings such as CAMHS clinic bases, nurseries, schools and children’s centres and with children and parents in their own homes. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - For further details please see attached Job description ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course; presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of possible care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings. Clinical experience that maintains a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. - Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and intervention, both as a professionally clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. - Ability to work effectively within safeguarding procedures in the context of a therapeutic service. **Desirable** - Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist. - Experience working therapeutically with children and young people with significant emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties, and their families/carers. - Experience of working with children and young people with social and communication difficulties associated with autism. - Experience of specialist standardised assessments for autism such as ADOS 2 or ADI-R. - Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. - Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. - Experience of working clinically with people who present with challenging behaviours, and/or people who have communication difficulties. ### Personal attributes **Essential** - A passion and enthusiasm for working with people presenting with autism and their families and carers. - A desire to champion and enable people with autism - Able to demonstrate a positive and non-judgmental attitude towards service users and their family and carers. - Willing to reflect on own practice and to learn from this. - Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary environment, respect others and to contain the complex demands and conflicts that this can engender. - Ability to develop productive therapeutic relationships with a range of service users. - Ability to deal with organisational stress and to effectively manage own time and resources. ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - Registered with the HCPC under a relevant practitioner psychologist title - Doctoral level qualification in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology as recognized by the Health Professions Council (HCPC) - Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body. - Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy). **Desirable** - Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. - Further training in a specific psychological assessment, model or intervention specific to the role remit/area of work. - Qualification in one or more recognised and accredited diagnostic assessment/s for Autistic Spectrum Conditions. ### Skills knowledge and abilities **Essential** - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. - Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions. - Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. - Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. - Ability to utilise psychometric tests competently and be aware of their limitations. - Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. **Desirable** - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. - Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC. - Experience of working within a multicultural framework. ## Documents - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) - [cypas jd 8a psychologist (pdf, 648.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10665358) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.