Principal Clinical Psychologist - ILS Team

+ To work as a psychologist in the service, providing clinical services directly to people with complex mental health problems and their families/carers and supporting the service and its staff to use strategies that enhance the psychological well-being of people who use this service and their families and/or carers.
+ To provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the ILS pathway to adults, their families or carers. To work with clients alone at the team base, in local NHS settings or other care environments, or at their home as necessary.
+ 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 with sensitivel

As part of our transformation of community mental health services we are currently expanding the Intensive Life Skills team. This post would be initially based in the Stafford and Cannock locality, with a rolling expansion across Staffordshire.
We are looking for someone with passion and integrity who will welcome the opportunity to help support the develop and influence the service. Experience and expertise in working with people who have complex emotional needs is essential.
This is an interesting new post which will have considerable input to the service development work being undertaken as part of the Mental Health Transformation as well as having a leadership role within the Intensive Life Skills Pathway.

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, 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 annual 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 vaccination every year
+ Attractive relocation package
+ 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.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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The Intensive Life Skills Pathway is a multi-disciplinary mental health team providing assessment and intervention for adults experiencing complex emotional difficulties across East and West Staffordshire as part of the Adult Mental Health Service.
The multi-disciplinary team works in a highly psychologically-minded way and are passionate about working with service-users who present with high levels of emotional distress and who often have histories of complex trauma and/or adverse experiences. Applicants should have an interest in working with this client group, and an experience of relevant evidence based interventions.
The pathway utilises Structured Clinical Management (SCM) as a core therapeutic model, combining individual and workshop based interventions. A range of additional therapeutic models are utilised including attachment theory, behavioural theory, Compassion-Focussed Therapy, EMDR, Trauma-Focussed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mentalisation-Based Treatment, and DBT informed interventions.
The successful candidate will be expected to undertake psychological assessments and formulation of complex clinical presentations, with some focus on trauma and attachment. Therapy will be provided on an individual and group basis, in line with assessed needs and complementary to the pathway model.
There will be a requirement to provide clinical supervision to colleagues within the pathway. The role will also involve engaging with service development & evaluation. Regular clinical supervision will be offered, along with a range of supervisory and developmental opportunities. The team has good links with the nearby Clinical Psychology Doctorate course based at Staffordshire University.