• Job Description

  Req#: C9301-25-0833?language=en&page=1150&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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.

  About us

  By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

  • Supporting your career development and progression
  • Excellent NHS Pension scheme
  • Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Options for flexible working
  • Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
  • Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
  • If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
  • Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
  • Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
  • Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
  • Free car parking at all trust sites
  • Free flu vaccinations every year
  • Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

  We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

  Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

  Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

  Details

  Date posted

  30 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £53,755 to £60,504 a year pa pro rata

  Contract

  Fixed term

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Part-time

  Reference number

  301-KM-25-7191505-A

  Job locations

  severnfields medical practice

  Sundorne Road

  Shrewsbury

  SY1 4RQ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

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

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

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

  Person Specification

  clinical suitability and skills

  Essential

  • post-holder is registered with the health Professions Council and is eligible for registration as a chartered clinical psychologist.

  Desirable

  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

  clincial experience

  Essential

  • Assessed significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including psychosis, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings

  Desirable

  • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

  Person Specification

  clinical suitability and skills

  Essential

  • post-holder is registered with the health Professions Council and is eligible for registration as a chartered clinical psychologist.

  Desirable

  • Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.

  clincial experience

  Essential

  • Assessed significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including psychosis, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings

  Desirable

  • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  severnfields medical practice

  Sundorne Road

  Shrewsbury

  SY1 4RQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  severnfields medical practice

  Sundorne Road

  Shrewsbury

  SY1 4RQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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