Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Family Safeguarding
The closing date is 15 June 2026
We are offering the opportunity for a qualified Psychologist to join our team of Psychologists/psychological practitioners working into Telford Local Authority’s Family Safeguarding service. We also warmly welcome current 3rd Year Trainee Psychologists to apply on a Preceptorship basis, where appointment would be at Band 7, with progression to 8a over time.
The Family Safeguarding Parent Mental Health Service is delivered by Psychologists employed by Midlands Partnership Foundation NHS Trust (MPFT) and embedded within Telford County Council’s Family Safeguarding Service. The service aims to provide timely mental health assessments, risk evaluations, and evidence-based psychological interventions for parents involved in child protection, who may otherwise struggle to access mental health services. The post involves working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, including Children’s Social Workers, Drug and Alcohol Recovery Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, and Strengthening Families.
This is a varied and dynamic role aimed to meet the mental health needs of parents, and you will be well supported by both the existing psychological practitioners working into Family Safeguarding, and the wider group of Psychologists and psychological practitioners in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
For more information about the role, you are warmly welcomed to contact the Lead Psychologist for Family Safeguarding, Dr Kiran Sidhu (Kiran.Sidhu@mpft.nhs.uk).
Main duties of the job
- Provide psychological assessment and evidence-based interventions including a range of group and individual psychological interventions
- Provide psychological assessment and interventions in relation to the impact of mental health difficulties in relation to parenting
- Provide specialist support, guidance and consultation on clients’ psychological care to other multi-disciplinary professionals
- Work closely with both psychological therapies staff and other non-psychological therapy colleagues
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures
- Utilise research skills for audit, teaching, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service
- Provide clinical supervision for Assistant Psychologists, B7 therapists/psychologists and trainees
Qualifications
- Post-graduate doctoral level training (completed or near completion) in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent) including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Good undergraduate degree (preferably relevant to psychological therapy)
- Current (or expected on qualification) registration/accreditation with appropriate body
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified applied psychologist or trainee psychologist; experience of working with a wide variety of client groups
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and intervention, within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Experience in working in a multiagency setting with families
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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