Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate and skilled Clinical or Counselling Psychologists to join the Children & Young People's Autism Service in South Staffordshire: a multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention service. These are busy times and so we are working to improve our service pathways to ensure efficient service delivery and an improved patient experience. If you are excited by the opportunity to be a part of our service transformation and you have a passion for delivering and developing psychologically informed care for children and young people with autism, then we'd like to hear from you. You will be responsible for providing specialist psychological input across our diagnostic and intervention pathways. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team but will also have professional links through other psychologists in the team and a professional leadership structure. We can offer full time or part time opportunities and will consider requests for flexible working. It is a requirement to work at the base and across sites in South Staffordshire but hybrid working will also be a possibility. MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary- at 50% on commencement of employment with us and 50% following 12 months employment. We are also able to consider enhanced training and development opportunities for anyone already with MPFT.Main duties of the job To learn more about our service, please view the below videos: NHS MPFT - Recruitment - Psychology on Vimeo NHS MPFT - Recruitment - Autism on Vimeo To provide ahighly specialist psychology service to Children and Young People with autism, or possible autism, diagnoses in South Staffordshire. You will be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological input across three main areas:

• Autism assessment
• Highly specialist advice, support and intervention to CYP with a diagnosis of autism and their families.
• Highly specialist advice, support and intervention to young people (19-25) with an existing diagnosis of autism and an Education & Health Care Plan.
This role will incorporate highly complex psychological assessments leading to psychological formulations of distress; interpretation and opinion; and forming judgements to inform service provision and providing necessary psychological interventions. To be responsible for the clinical supervision of less experienced psychologists and assistant psychologists, and supervising and supporting the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other members of the CYP autism service who provide psychologically based care and intervention. To provide placements for psychologists in training as required following gaining the necessary post-qualification requirements.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by


• 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.