Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated Clinical Psychologist/ Practitioner Psychologist to join our friendly Inpatient Psychology Service at Clock View Hospital.
A strong commitment to a compassionate, inclusive, person-centred approach andtosocial justice and human rights is essential to our work in the Inpatient service, as we aim to empower the people we work with to support their recovery.
We welcome and will consider applications from applicants who are registered with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist and have Post-graduate doctoral level training in the field of applied psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent.
We are looking for qualified psychological practitioners with the experience, skills and enthusiasm to provide quality services to people accessing Mersey Care NHS Trust.
Successful applicants would be working within teams to support people with a range of psychological issues. The applicant will provide specialist psychological assessment, therapy and interventions to service users and carers, making use of a range of models where appropriate.Successful applicants would also offer specialist advice, leadership and consultation to non-psychologist colleagues and support the development of psychological skills across the whole workforce through specialist training, supervision, mentorship and reflective practice.
Psychological input is highly valued by staff within the service.You will work alongside the senior Clinical Psychologist to be involved in ongoing service development and in shaping service innovations.
We have excellent links with North West doctoral training programmes and offer placements to trainees from local universities on a regular basis and the post holder would be expected to clinically supervise and manage the workloads of assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists within the service as required.
You will contribute towards the continuing professional development, training, research, advising and supporting the Multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
Inpatient work offers a varied role with lots of opportunities for development. CPD is central to the post. Dependent on your skill set we will provide a wide range of training to meet your individual and service needs. Over the last three years examples of funded training courses available for our staff include: CFT (individual and group), EMDR, ACT, DBT, MBT and CAT training.You will receive additional modality specialist supervision should this be required. We are keen to support career progression and will also support your training in leadership and management should you wish to pursue this. Our aim to support, develop and retain you so you stay with Mersey Care for many years to come.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking psychological work with service users residing on Inpatient Wards at Clock View Hospital. Main duties include: assessment, formulation, intervention, evaluation, audits/ research, teaching and training, supervision of assistant psychologists and MDT staff, delivering Reflective Practice to ward teams.The applicant will work closely with a team of assistant psychologists to support the delivery of individual and group psychological interventions. This is an exciting time to join the service as we are in the process of introducing new models of care to the Inpatient wards with an emphasis on systemic psychological approaches, including, the Self Harm Pathway and Positive Behavioural Support for challenging behaviours, the post holder will support the system to deliver these clinical pathways.
The post holder will report directly to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
This post is advertised as a band 8a; we would be willing to accept application from newly qualified Psychologists, if successful they would be appointed at band 7 Preceptorship with a programme of competencies they had to achieve to reach the level required for the 8a post.
We are also accepting applications from Practitioner Psychologists.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent organisation and communication skills and be motivated to ensure high standards of proficiency and professional practise.
The post holder will report directly to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
This advert closes on Monday 23 Sep 2024