Counselling/Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

The Liaison Mental Health Team is inviting applications from Band 8b Clinical or Counselling Psychologists to join services based at Princess Royal Hospital, Telford, and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to join the service at a pivotal point in the redevelopment of psychology provision within the Urgent Care Pathway.

In this role, you will work collaboratively with established psychology colleagues within the acute hospital setting, alongside the wider urgent care psychology team, to support ongoing service development. You will be part of a psychologically informed multidisciplinary team, working closely with Nurses, Medics and Allied Health Professionals.

The post involves both direct and indirect clinical work with individuals presenting with primary or co-morbid mental health difficulties. This includes undertaking and supervising assessment, formulation, and brief psychological interventions with individuals and their systems. There is also a strong emphasis on consultation, reflective practice, staff wellbeing, team formulation and training.

You will maintain close links with psychology colleagues across the urgent care pathway, including inpatient services, crisis and home treatment teams, and liaison services. The primary base is Princess Royal Hospital, with travel to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital during working hours.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a clinical psychology service to patients, with moderate to severe mental health problems, seen within the mental Health Liaison within the areas of agreed responsibility. To work with clients alone as necessary.
• To be responsible, under supervision, for running and evaluating psychological tests, giving feedback and diagnosis sensitively. You will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times. You will utilise advanced theoretical and practical clinical skills in applying psychology interventions as required.
• To provide expert psychological assessment and reports, both written and verbal, to referrers of people with a wide range of psychological problems, in accordance with codes of professional ethics. This will require the ability to administer a range of psychometric and neuropsychological assessments.
• Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological therapy to an exceptionally high standard to patients with a range of mental health problems.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.