Divisional Associate Director of Psychological - Prescot, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Prescot, United Kingdom

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We are in a position to offer an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Divisional Lead Psychologist, to join our team and to contribute to the provision of systematic and high quality specialist clinical psychological services across our Community Care Division.


Our community Care Division hosts our NHS Adult Talking Therapies service (formerly IAPT), various Children and Young People's Mental Health Services as well as other Psychology services.


The post holder will be an integral part of the divisions senior leadership team and will be accountable to the Divisional Director and responsible to the Chief Psychological Professions Officer.

Part time hours and a job share will be considered if requested.


Lead role in ensuring the provision of effective professional and workforce development leadership for psychology services workforce across the Division.


In partnership with key stakeholders identify and develop improvement initiatives with regards to social inclusion, integration, personalisation, public mental health and equality and diversity.

Promote divisional achievements nationally, regionally, locally and internally in relation to psychological services.

To develop strategies, policies and organisational systems to implement effective service governance and development across services.

To provide a source of expertise in the management and development of services within the Division.


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.


We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.


At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.


At Mersey Care we strive to continually build on our values and beliefs that will allow all our workforce to develop their potential and bring their whole self into the organisation.

In order to strengthen our inclusivity and diversity, we recognise the need to ensure we become more representative of the communities we serve.


This is recognised in the NHS England EDI Workforce Improvement Plan 2023 and NHS Workplace Race Equality Standard that in senior NHS Leadership positions, there is an underrepresentation of Black and Asian Minority colleagues (BME).


The Equality Act permits Mersey Care as a defined public authority, to take steps to address inequity and underrepresentation as positive action, and this includes our approach for this position.

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