Job summary
- Main area
- adult mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-KM-25-7280956
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Severn Field's Health Village
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
This position is for a Senior Assistant Psychologist with the Shrewsbury West & Rural CMHS.
The team work with individuals with a varying degree of mental illnesses with adults in the community offering key working, assessment and risk management and working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
The team consists of several different disciplines including nurses, occupational therapists, social worker, medics, non-medical prescribers, psychologists, support workers and a nursing associate.
For this post we will require substantial experience as an Assistant Psychologist and a capability of working with some complex cases and challenging situations.
Main duties of the job
- To support the systematic provision of brief psychological therapeutic interventions.
- Contribute to this developing role; including using outcome measures and evaluating the service. The post-holder will support Leads and other practitioners.
- Work with the multi-disciplinary team and will assist with clinically related administration.
- Use research skills for audit and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
- Compile and disseminate relevant resources.
- Promote and maintain good working relationships with clients and other external agencies.
- Receive regular (weekly) clinical professional supervision from senior qualified psychologists in the service.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and job specification.
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.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, autism, personality disorder and/or research design and analysis.
- CBT qualification, or other similar level of therapeutic qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people in a clinical or other supportive environment as an AP or equivalent
- Significant experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
- significant experience of working as an assistant psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Understanding and experience of working with people who have experienced trauma.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings and multi-agency settings.
- Experience and understanding of working with people with a psychotic disorder
- Experience of working with those with a neurodivergence
- Experience of working psychologically with assessment, formulation, intevention and evaluation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Corfield
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 3426
- Additional information
Clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Bigglestone
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