Band 8b Clinical Psychologist - Stafford, United Kingdom - Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Stafford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:

  • Our SOOTHE resources
  • supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
  • Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- "In our Gift" providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change

  • The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
  • Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
  • Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
  • Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
  • Child Care Vouchers Scheme
  • Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
  • NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes


To work as a principal psychologist within the CLDTs in South Staffordshire providing clinical services to adults with a learning disability who require highly specialist psychological input.

Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment to people eligible for the service; for both individuals and groups. Providing specialist clinical supervision, psychological advice and training to others (internal and external to MPFT) as required.


To support MPFT colleagues to better understand and meet the needs of people with Learning Disabilities who have experienced trauma, with the ultimate aim of enhancing the quality of life and psychological well-being of people who use its services and their families and/or carers.


To contribute to, and lead on (where appropriate), psychological service developments and improvements for people with learning disabilities their families and/or carers in South Staffordshire.

To lead on the delivery of best practice in relation to trauma informed care for adults with learning disabilities; including attention to the development and use of appropriate Clinical Pathways, Trauma Training and trauma informed supervision as agreed with the Professional Leads for Learning Disability Psychological Services.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees.

We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.


We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.


  • To provide highly specialist psychological assessments for service users with learning disabilities in South Staffordshire based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, selfreport measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user's care.
  • To undertake personcentred diagnostic assessments to establish whether or not a learning disability diagnosis is appropriate for a person following current best practice guidance; and to robustly assess other presenting psychological needs to inform future treatment planning as appropriate.
  • To provide specialist psychological advice and support in respect of adults with learning disabilities who have been placed out of area for treatment as a result of their complex needs and who require specialist psychological advice, support and treatment planning to facilitate their discharge back to South Staffordshire.
  • To work with service users and other professionals in a wide variety of community settings including local acute hospitals and mental health inpatient wards providing specialist psychological inputs as required.
  • To routinely work effectively and collaboratively with service users who have been perpetrators and/or victims of criminal offences and/or who have complex behavioural needs including behaviours that challenge services. To work with service users and (advise other service as appropriate) in respect of their risk needs and the mitigants required.
  • To routinely work effectively and collaboratively with service users who have experienced trauma and have psychological treatment needs in respect of both simple and complex psychological trauma/s. To advise service users (and other services and professionals as appropriate) in respect of how to understand & best meet people's trauma related treatment needs.
  • To lead on the delivery of best practice in relation to trauma informed care for adults with learning disabilities in South Staffordshire; including supporting the development of appropriate Clinical Pathways and t
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