B7/8a Preceptorship – Clinical/Counselling Psychologist- ICoN Team: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-holder is registered with the Health Professions Council (HCPC) and eligible for BPS registration as a Chartered Clinical/Counselling Psychologist,
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Post-graduate training and accreditation in psychological approaches, courses accredited by the BPS, BABCP, EMDR Association Europe, or equivalent.

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional bodies.

Experience

Essential

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist at a highly specialist level and extensive experience of supervision of others.
• Experience of working with a range of client presentations, including experience working with people who have a diagnosis of psychosis and/or severe mental health problems, across a range of care settings. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and as a supervisor of others.

Desirable

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in different cultural contexts. For example NHS, MoD.
• Experience of working with people with co-occurring needs

Closing Date: 1 December 2026