Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist (Preceptorship)

Job overview

Band: Band 7 – 8a (Preceptorship Role)

Base: Park House, Cannock (but travel across the South Staffs region will be necessary).

The Integrated Occurring Needs (ICoN) Pathway launched in January 2023, as a jointly funded pathway between Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and the Staffordshire County Council Public Health Team. The aim of this pathway is to provide needs-led collaborative care to service users that are experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties alongside substance use related difficulties.

Are you coming to the end of training and seeking a role with career progression built in for your first post? Perhaps you are a Band 7 who would like to be supported to achieve a more senior position, or a Band 8a looking for an exciting new challenge with an innovative, integrated treatment pathway?

Whilst allocated to the Cannock area, the ability to travel across the region as required will be necessary, however, it is envisaged that a blend of face-to-face and remote working as appropriate will also help to minimise travel.

Main duties of the job

1. The systematic provision of a specialist psychology service to people with complex, co-occurring mental health and substance use needs within the Integrated Co-occurring Needs (ICoN) Pathway, working across relevant localities as agreed with the Principal Clinical Psychologist and Team Leader. This is to involve providing specialist psychological assessments, leading to psychological formulations of distress; interpretation and opinion; forming judgements to inform service provision and the delivery of necessary evidence-based psychological interventions, with consideration to the needs of carer(s) and/or family

2. Ensuring the continuing development of a trauma-informed, recovery focused model of care, enhancing service user and carer involvement

3. Engaging with a wide spectrum of agencies, statutory and voluntary, to enhance client care and minimise social exclusion and to promote by example high standards of care and positive values.

4. Advising, training, supervising and providing consultation to multi-disciplinary and –agency colleagues as appropriate, on complex co-occurring needs and clients’ psychological care packages and treatment plans. This may include non-psychologists as well as non-professional carers