# Senior Assistant Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-assistant-psychologist/3a1361b8-02be-490f-99df-580838170c19 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-assistant-psychologist/3a1361b8-02be-490f-99df-580838170c19.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Telford & Wrekin CMHS - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term Contract) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (between Monday-Friday 9-5) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-27T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-13T13:40:43.924Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Telford/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Assistant_Psychologist/Senior_Assistant_Psychologist-v8177905 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8177905?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn Telford & Wrekin Community Mental Health Team is excited to be recruiting a Band 5 Community Senior Assistant Psychologist In the role you will work in an adult community mental health service, delivering brief psychological interventions to clients and their families. You will be working with an identified caseload with access to regular and robust supervision. You will be delivering 1:1 and group psychological interventions, in accordance with an agreed care plan, to an identified group of people experiencing mental health related difficulties, under the direction of the services Clinical Psychologists. You will work in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team and will provide Psychology 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. There will also be opportunities to be involved in service evaluation, audit and research. ### Main duties of the job - Under the clinical supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, assists in the formulation of the client’s difficulties and in the planning and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of the client’s problems in community settings. - Under the clinical supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, delivers therapeutic interventions developed or guided by the qualified psychologist or otherwise defined by protocol, for individual clients and for families, including, for example, planned programmes of CBT/DBT or other appropriate psychological interventions. - Assists in the planning, development, coordination and delivery of therapeutic groups, including for example group approaches to emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Acts as co-therapist with qualified psychologist, other Assistant Psychologist or other designated clinician and as appropriate runs group in accordance with agreed protocol. - Assists in the promotion a psychologically informed approach to the understanding and management of the problems and needs of all clients within the service area covered. - Collaborates with other members of the MDT in case and care reviews. - Attends and contributes to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings, providing a psychological perspective or psychological information in conjunction with or on behalf of the qualified psychologist who supervises their practice. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information please refer to the attached job description and job specification ### Applicant requirements 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 as an Assistant Psychologist in the NHS - Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems - Experience of research methods, audit or other service evaluation techniques. - Has worked with clinical psychologists and has an awareness of professional standards/issues. **Desirable** - Understanding and experience of working with people who have experienced trauma & / or psychosis ### qualifications. **Essential** - A First or Upper Second honours degree in psychology OR a lower class with a post-graduate qualification e.g.: Masters degree. - Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society. **Desirable** - Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, autism, personality disorder and/or research design and analysis. ## Documents - [band 5 ap (pdf, 235.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10510547) - [b5 job spec (pdf, 192.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10480862) - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) ## 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.