Clinical / Counselling Psychologist B7 (on preceptorship to 8a)

Job Summary
We are very happy to be offering a B7- B8a Development post working in our Liaison Mental Health Team as part of our exciting redevelopment of psychology in the Urgent Care Pathway.
The successful applicant will work alongside a psychologically minded team of Nurses, Medics, and Allied Health Professionals across Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin and be based at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital.
It is envisaged that the post will entail working both directly and indirectly with service users presenting in the acute hospital with primary or concurrent mental health difficulties. You will be carrying out and supervising assessment, formulation, and brief intervention work with individuals and/or their systems. The post will also entail significant elements of consultation, reflective practice, staff well-being, team formulation, and training.
This post will maintain close links with other psychology colleagues within the urgent care pathway (Inpatients, Crisis/Home treatment, and Liaison Mental Health teams). Across the pathway, we will have 4 Practitioner Psychologists, Trainee Associate Psychologists, and Assistant Psychologists with the possibility of further expansion in the future.
This job will be considered as a Band 7 - Band 8a preceptorship.
MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary - at 50% on commencement of employment and 50% following 12 months employment.

Main Duties of the Job

• To provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the Urgent Care service, to adults their families or carers. To work with clients alone at the team base or other care environments, or at their home as necessary.
• To communicate highly complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.
• To be responsible for conducting psychological interviews, deriving information from self-report measures, rating scales, psychometrics (where necessary), direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client's care, interpreting complex data and giving feedback effectively and sensitively.
• To be skilled in risk assessment and management. The post holder will be expected to maintain high professional levels of clinical judgement and application of complex skills at all times.
• Following assessment, to provide expert formulation and psychological interventions 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.

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: 07 November 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year Per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 301-KM-25-7439461
Job Locations: Princess Royal Hospital and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Telford/Shrewsbury, TF1 6TF

Job Responsibilities
For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and job specification.
Person Specification
Essential

• Registration
  Desirable
• Post registration training
  Interview
  Essential
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC/BPS. ACP
  Desirable
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
  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.
  Employer Details
  Employer Name: Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
  Address: Princess Royal Hospital and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Telford/Shrewsbury, TF1 6TF