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Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 pa pro rata
Profession
Psychologist
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
03 Aug 2025
Contract Type
12 months (fixed term until 30th March 2026)
Posted Date
30 Jun 2025

Job overview

The Shropshire the Reset/ Rough Sleepers service has an opportunity for Psychologist to provide clinical services directly to people with complex alcohol/substance misuse and mental health problems and homelessness and their families/carers and supporting the service and its staff.

You will use strategies that enhance the psychological well-being of people who use this service and their families and/or carers. You will be expected to participate in the multi-agency RESET meetings to provide guidance, signposting and clinical knowledge to the MDT.

You will provide assessment, formulation and trauma informed psychological understanding and therapeutic interventions. In addition, you will also provide reflective supervision for the service alongside any debriefing and staff support that may be required.

You will provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the Substance Misuse pathway to adults, their families or carers.  To work with clients alone at the team base, in local NHS settings or other care environments, or at their home as necessary. Within this to be able to communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.

Main duties of the job

  • 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
  • Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological therapy to an exceptionally high standard to service users with a range of mental health problems.
  • To formulate and implement plans for formal psychological intervention and/or management of a client’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
  • To manage a specialist caseload autonomously and within the criteria directed by the Trust.  To make difficult decisions about priorities and clinical issues
  • To act as a care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA.
  • To risk assess individual clients, especially those who have challenging and complex needs and to provide advice to other professionals on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
  • To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please refer to the attached job description and person specification