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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to work within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Eating Disorder Service. · This is a fixed term post covering maternity leave. · You will be responsible for a clinical caseload and delivering a range of individual and ...
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Clinical Psychologist
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomTo provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, dire ...
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Clinical Psychologist
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomWe currently have Band 8a Clinical Psychology vacancies in our Liverpool Step Forward service. We provide our trauma informed model of psychological care to those who might previously have 'fallen through the gap' between primary and secondary mental health services; our intentio ...
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Clinical Psychologist
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomThe post holder will supervise and support the highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychological professions and other members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. · The post holder will exercise delegated managem ...
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Clinical Psychologist
3 days ago
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomWe wish to recruit an 8a Clinical Psychologist into our Sefton and Kirkby Step Forward service. · The Step Forward service provides a stepped model of Psychological care to those who might previously have 'fallen through the gap' between primary and secondary mental health servic ...
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Clinical Psychologist
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Clinical Psychologist
1 week ago
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomWe currently have Band 8a Clinical Psychology vacancies in our Liverpool Step Forward service. We provide our trauma informed model of psychological care to those who might previously have 'fallen through the gap' between primary and secondary mental health services; our intentio ...
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Clinical Psychologist
1 week ago
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomThe post holder will supervise and support the highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychological professions and other members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. · The post holder will exercise delegated managem ...
Clinical Psychologist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Are you an enthusiastic Clinical Psychologist with experience and interest of supporting autistic people with complex needs? This post offers an exciting opportunity to develop clinical and strategic skills and shape the development of an exciting innovative new service.
The Intensive Support Team for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative, dynamic and responsive service that provides a valued service to autistic people who are at risk of a breakdown in community care, and/or an inappropriate admission to hospital.
You will have the opportunity to work in an evolving team and at the same time be part of well-established autism team working alongside Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Nurses, support workers and assistant psychologists within the autism service.
The service model is one of supporting autistic people who are possibly in crisis and require additional support with regard to their autism to keep them safe and well in the community.
This will involve working closely with specialist practitioners and other health professionals to support this complex group of individuals to remain in their community setting and, where an appropriate admission has occurred, to be discharged promptly and safely in line with national Transforming Care strategy.
To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to Improving Access to Autism (ASC) service, service users, across a community primary care setting.
To advise, supervise and support the assessment and treatment provided by clinical members of the teams who provide psychologically based care and treatment within the ASC service.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the service.To work in an effectivepartnership with the clinical service leadership including other IAPT team members and members of other agencies responsible for a client's care.
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.
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.To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, within and across Mersey Care IAPT teams adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care.
To ensure that all members of the treating service have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- disciplinary and multi- disciplinary care.
To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment service.
Will be required to deal with the intense emotional atmosphere surrounding therapy contacts which may be highly distressing on a daily basis, and to work with frequent intense concentration for much of the clinical sessions of assessment and therapy.
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist
Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
Formal training in IAPT compliant supervision of other psychological professionals including at least one IAPT approved therapeutic modality
Specialist experience in the area of complex trauma- related mental health
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment
Experience of planning and delivering ongoing training and CPD to clinical staff at steps two and three within a stepped care model
Experience of planning and providing supervision of clinical staff at steps two and three within a stepped care model
Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
Expertise and knowledge across the spectrum of an IAPT service
Experience of working in Primary Care Services
Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Contributed to the developing IAPT programme and understanding of the national IAPT service and how it links to governmental objectives
Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
Support
Responsive to service users
Strong customer service belief
Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly emotional situations
Able to lead a service and make decisions and judgments about the best possible way forward in a complex work environment where the evidence base is evolving
Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material
Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership with a service sector
Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological approaches and interest in models of service delivery and ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi- disciplinary team working
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
