Applied Psychologist

Main area Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent: 30 hours per week Hours

• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

30 hours per week (Flexible working is available) Job ref 301-KM-25-7086804

Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Hall Court Town Telford Salary £64,455 – £74,896 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an 8b Applied Psychologist to join our CORE Mental Health Team and Crisis and Home Treatment Team for children, young people and their families in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. This post will be ideal for HCPC Registered Psychologists who have experience of working with children and families with complex mental health needs and are looking for career progression.

The CRHTT offers short term interventions and support to children who are at risk of harm to themselves or others. The CORE Mental Health Team provides a range of short- and long-term interventions for children and young people with mental health difficulties. We are seeking an Applied Psychologist to join in this newly developed in working across these two teams.

As a Psychologist, you will focus on providing highly specialist support to the MDT within the team, providing support, supervision and consultation to clinicians across the service and to external agencies.

The crisis team is based at Hall Court in Telford, and the Core Mental Health team has bases in Shrewsbury and Dawley, Telford.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached job description which lists the key duties and responsibilities for this post.

Working for our organisation

Come and work with us at our award-winning NHS Trust, leading the way for trying new and better ways of working to help improve life for our local communities.

We have around 9,000 staff who provide physical and mental healthcare, support for people with learning disabilities, and adult social care across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. We also run regional and national services, including help for new parents (perinatal care), eating disorders, forensic services, sexual health, and support for people in prison with mental health, drug, or alcohol problems.

We offer great career development for both clinical and non-clinical roles, with ongoing training and support to help you learn and grow.

We are ‘United in our Uniqueness’ and committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and can be themselves, no matter their background or identity. We want our staff to feel supported and valued, and we aim to build a team that reflects the communities we serve. Together, we can make sure every voice is heard, and every difference is respected.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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 .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on this role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Professional Registration

• HCPC Registration

Qualifications

• Doctorate level training (or equivilant) in a relevent area of applied psychology
• BSc (Hons) in Psychology
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional areas of specialised psychological practice.
• Additional CPD and training in one or more additional areas of psychological practice.
• Expereince or training in one or more thearpeutic appraoches
• Training of appraoches applicable to children, young peopple and their families

Experience

• Substantial experience of working as a qualified psychologist with autistic inidivudal who are expereincing mental health problems; including assessment and clinical interventions for a wide range of presenting problems.
• Experience in the delivery of trauma informed psychological care.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life span, presenting with a range of mental health concerns of differing severity.
• Experience of working with children and young people.
• Experience of providing clinical consultation to other professional staff.
• Expereince of working with high risk CYP\’s
• Experience working in a CRHTT

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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