Assistant Psychologist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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

2 weeks ago

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The post holder will be based within Rowan View, Maghull.

This is a locked hospital environment and the post holder is required to be responsible for keys to the unit.

Post holders must have a capacity to provide services in constrained or adverse conditions and may be required to sit in constrained positions for clinical sessions.

The post holder will work into the multi disciplinary service within Rowan View. Members of the service attend meetings and conduct both individual and group therapies within the hospital environment. Given the nature of this service there is the potential for exposure to face-to-face verbal and physical aggression.


The post holder is expected to maintain professionalism and awareness of the potential risks for service users, themselves and other colleagues, at all times.

The post holder deals with professional, legal, and personal challenges on a regular basis, including considerable media interest.


Due to the security status of Rowan View the post holder works under the direction of the joint governance arrangements and security protocols, the security directives devised by the Mental Health Act (1983), current NHS guidelines, and directives under Caldicott Guardianship.


  • To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users within the service, across all relevant sectors; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the supervising qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
  • To assist in clinically-related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work
  • To undertake psychological assessments of service users which may include a range of psychometric assessments, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, carers and others involved in the client's care
  • To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's problems
  • To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups
  • To work with other disciplines to assess service users and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews
  • To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings as directed by the qualified practitioner psychologist
  • To receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines and directorate policy.


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.


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.


  • To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users within the service, across all relevant sectors; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the supervising qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
  • To assist in clinically-related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work

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Under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist:
To work with potentially distressing material in relation to service users' personal histories and possible offending behaviour, risks to self and others, and additional security requirements as integral to a secure


  • To undertake psychological assessments of service users which may include a range of psychometric assessments, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, carers and others involved in the client's care
  • To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's problems
  • To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups
  • To work with other disciplines to asse
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