Band 8a Highly Specialist Psychologist - or Band 7 to 8a Preceptorship

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We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, with an annual turnover of close to £400m, serving a population of 1.5m over a core geography of 2,400 square miles. Our portfolio of services includes mental health, learning disability and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire. We provide a vast range of community services for adults and children and specialised services such as rheumatology and rehabilitation.

We have specialist mother and baby, eating disorder and medium secure forensic mental health services and contracts across the country for IAPT, addiction and some health services in prisons as well as hosting a network for inpatient mental health care for serving military personnel.

Recently, we have been shortlisted for Capsticks Award for innovation, Academi Wales Award for Excellence in Organisational Development, Health and Wellbeing Award – Public Sector at Personnel Today Awards 2021, we were finalists for the HSJ Value Award 2021 for People and Organisational Development Initiative of the Year and we were the winners of the HR impact Award at Personnel Today Awards 2021.

Employing around 8,500 employees, we are an innovative and forward thinking organisation with an ever expanding portfolio of services. This means we can offer our employees genuine opportunities to develop their careers by gaining experience across a number of specialisms. We are a Keele University Teaching Trust with a thriving Research and Innovation Department.

The Trust works in partnership with the NHS programme ‘Step into Health’, supporting ex-service personnel into a career in the NHS.

Shropshire Care Group

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Band 8a – consideration will also be given to band 7 applicants for a band 7/band 8a preceptorship

Community Interventions Pathway (West Shropshire) – Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Ludlow – the Trust are committed to supporting staff with a blended approach of home and office working, and therefore this will be negotiated within this role.

We are seeking an experienced, skilled and enthusiastic psychologist to join the Community Interventions Pathway team in West Shropshire. We provide secondary mental health care to a large population including Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Ludlow and surrounding areas. Local mental health services include a single point of Access team, a Crisis and Home Treatment team as well as a Psychosis pathway, Early Intervention in Psychosis Team, Intensive Life skills pathway.

Multi-disciplinary team working is central to the role. We are establishing a formulation led programme of interventions including DBT and CBT informed psychoeducational group interventions as well as individual work. You will be involved in providing teaching, supervision and consultation to other team members as well as working directly with service users and their families. You will take a lead in the development and provision of additional psychoeducational group interventions along with MDT colleagues.

Applicants should have previous experience of working in mental health teams in the NHS and knowledge and skills in working with people who present with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

Applicants should be qualified in Clinical or Counselling psychology and ideally will have additional accreditation in at least one therapeutic modality.

The post holder will receive regular line management with the pathway operational lead, along with professional supervision with the senior psychologist in the pathway on a regular basis. We value clinical supervision within the service and this will be an integral part of the support offered to the post holder. The care group supports regular training and continuing professional development.

You will work closely with other psychologists who use a range of approaches including CAT, CBT, and EMDR, systemic and psychodynamically informed work. We have strong links with the Clinical Psychology Doctorate course at Stafford University and the Counselling Psychology Doctorate course at Wolverhampton University and regularly offer trainee placements.

The base for this post will be Severnfields Health Village in Shrewsbury, although will be expected to cover the West of the county, in particular the Oswestry area.

Informal enquiries are welcome. Please contact:

Beena Parmar (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on 0300 303 1601 or beena.parmar@mpft.nhs.uk

Or

Nicola Faulkner (Pathway Operational Lead) on 0300 303 3426 or Nicola.faulkner@mpft.nhs.uk

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MPFT is committed to the equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates from all areas of the community, who meet the specific criteria of the post regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, physical / mental disability or offending background.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The Trust has a positive attitude to employees and job applicants with mental health issues.

PLEASE NOTE: should we have a high volume of applications the Trust may close the vacancy early