Clinical Psychologist

Job overview

Are you a newly qualifying Clinical Psychologists seeking a Band 7-8a development post in 2024?

Or are you a Band 8a looking to work in a collaborative team where the  clinical work is varied and complex?  A team that offers a voice to their young people and families?

Meet our team: Meet our Learning Disability CAMHS Team (youtube.com)

2024 looks set to be a significant year of development for our psychological services workforce in South Staffordshire Children and Young People’s Learning Disability Team (CYP LD TEAM), working alongside our specialist CAMHS services.

The successful candidates will benefit from being part of a programme of development and improvement in the psychological work offered across our five Specialist CAMHS Teams.  We are prioritizing strong clinical leadership, high quality psychological practice and psychologically informed specialist CAMHS provision.  Psychological practice across CAMHS will be further assured by the development of a strategy for psychological professions and psychological practice within our CAMHS transformation programme.

The position is based in Lichfield and will cover South Staffordshire. The candidate will work alongside our current Clinical Psychologist and be part of the wider MDT, which includes Nursing, OT, SALT and Psychiatry. 

We are also able to consider requests for flexible working and/or reduced hours (minimum 0.8 wte)

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist psychological assessments, within the areas of agreed responsibility, of children and young people whose have a diagnosis of moderate to severe learning disabilities, as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment process.
• Assessments will involve the interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews, and guided clinical inquiry methods with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility, within professional guidelines, for the assessment, therapeutic treatment and discharge of children and their families/carers.  The post-holder will exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within their work.  You will be responsible for adhering to relevant Trust policies and standards and will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management regarding individual clients.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the young person, parents or family/carers.

Working for our organisation

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) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• 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)

And more. 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.