Clinical 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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We currently have a Band 7 and/or 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 intention is to reduce the possibility of longer term deterioration in people's metal health by offering more timely earlier interventions.

We offer lots of opportunities for you to utilise your therapy skills and our team incorporates modalities including:
EMDR, DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, FT and PIT. Part of your role would also include the provision of clinical supervision within our team.

We as a service are fully committed to address social inequalities and improve accessibility to psychological therapies for our minoritized communities.

We do this by providing consultation and support to community providers, and by having a specialist 'widening access' agenda. Moreover our service incorporates service user involvement forums and our fully embedded carers pathway. We are an innovative service and pride ourselves on service development and nurturing our colleagues' development at all times. Our service comprises Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Practitioners and Assistant Psychologists. If you join us you will become part of a passionate and incredibly welcoming team. We will always fully support your leadership / development skills and ambitions.


The 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 management responsibilities where appropriate and work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.


The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.


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 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, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.


To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.


To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.


To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and 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 standard care plans.


To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based enhanced care plans.


To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.

To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding an
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