Clinical​/Counselling Psychologist

Job Overview

Shrewsbury Central East Community Mental Health Team is looking for a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist to work part‑time (15 hours per week).

• Provide a specialist clinical psychology service within the CMHT, working with clients remotely or face‑to‑face in NHS settings, other care environments, or at home as necessary.
• Communicate complex information effectively in highly emotive situations and overcome psychological resistances to potentially threatening issues.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the service’s policies and procedures, adhering to Trust policies, professional ethics, and standards.
• Develop expertise and advise the service on clinical matters; contribute to service and project development across the wider Trust area.
• Lead or contribute to training, supervision and governance aspects of specific models of service delivery.
• Supervise and support more junior psychologists within CMHS and provide peer supervisory support to colleagues as appropriate.
• Travel within Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin as required, providing clinical services face‑to‑face and remotely.

Work with a leading NHS Trust, part of a team of around 9,000 staff delivering physical and mental healthcare, learning disability support, adult social care and various specialities across Staffordshire, Stoke‑on‑Trent, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.

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.

Applicants must disclose the use of artificial intelligence in completing application forms. Use of AI will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency.

We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

• Essential:
  Years of experience in community mental health settings dealing with complex cases.
• Desirable:
  Experience outside the current job description.

• Essential:
  Registered with the Health Professions Council.
• Essential:
  Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or equivalent), including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Desirable:
  Post‑doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Desirable:
  Considerable experience of working with people with complex psychological trauma and systemic working.