Senior Psychotherapist - Runcorn, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Runcorn, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The post holder can be either a Clinical Psychotherapist or a Clinical Psychologist and will work within the parent Infant mental health service (BIBS) supporting children and families with there mental health and attachment relationships.

The post-holder will also provide interventions ranging from attachment informed therapeutic interventions, video interactive guidance, psychoeducation, parent interventions, training to internal and external partners on relationships and parent infant attachment, along with supporting children and families with mild to moderate anxiety and depression.

The post-holders will provide interventions ranging from attachment informed therapeutic interventions, video interactive guidance, psychoeducation, parent interventions, training to internal and external partners on relationships and parent infant attachment, along with supporting children and families with mild to moderate anxiety and depression, offering specialist interventions to a caseload of clients.

You will be working across Halton & Warrington Family Hubs, offering a truly integrated service.

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 assessments of clients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of attachment based 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 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.