Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are recruiting a new permanent Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to Lead our St Helens & Knowsley Eating Disorder Service.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our well established Service.

The Post holder will provide clinical and professional leadership across the service. This is a key role bringing psychological expertise and clinical leadership to further enhance clinical service delivery.

if you have a passion for providing exceptional care and are looking for an exciting, and challenging role we would welcome your talents and skills

To provide clinical psychological leadership for the provision and further development of psychological care within the clinical team to which the post holder is attached.

To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the clinical team to which the post holder is attached.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the clinical team to which the post holder is attached and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychological services staff within the service for which the post holder has designated
professional responsibility, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs. To be responsible for audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes as required by the service. To propose and implement policy and service development changes within the area served.

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.

To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, 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/or groups employed individually and in synthesis adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To 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 full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment of and discharge of clients whose problems are managed as a psychologically based care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan in an appropriate specialist area.

To ensure that all relevant staff have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory in an appropriate specialist area.

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