Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Associate in Psychology
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We are delighted to invite qualified CAPs (Adult) to apply for our Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) role in South West Shropshire.
This is a permanent full-time role in an established Primary Care Psychology Service. This service provides a group programme with individual assessment and formulation across South West Shropshire mainly based in Ludlow. There are close links with the wider CMHS and the Shropshire Telford and Wrekin psychology group. We have regular topic and business meetings and there are opportunities to shadow senior psychologists.
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CAPs are a new addition to the psychological workforce and have an important role supporting the wider NHS agenda to develop and expand psychological provision. CAPs will manage a caseload and take responsibility for proactive care delivery decisions, within their scope of practice.
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For further information about this post please contact: Dr Gillian Roose, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Lead for Psychological Practice. 0300 303 3426
Main duties of the job
- To support the wider NHS agenda to develop and expand access to psychological provision.
- Working within the identified clinical area, within an appropriate scope of practice in a semiautonomous manner to utilise psychological knowledge, research and theory to reduce psychological distress and to enhance psychological wellbeing of service users and carers.
- Ensuring the continuing development of a person centred, recovery focused model of care, enhancing service user and carer involvement.
- Management of a defined client caseload delivering interventions in accordance with NICE guidance and considering the needs of the carer/family.
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