To provide a high quality and highly specialised psychology service for Trust staff.
To provide appropriate support for Trust staff which is complementary to the resources offered regionally and nationally
To be a highly specialist resource on psychological care to the wider service and to coordinate and contribute to providing education, training and supervision activities to enhance psychological support and treatment across the service.
To use research skills for needs assessment, audit, evaluation, service development and other research activity to support continued development of the service.
To apply highly specialist expertise, gained post-qualification, in psychological treatment and research to clinical work and leadership in evaluation and research.
To supervise junior staff as required.
To promote psychology and the service within the local health, social care and research communities.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures.
1. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of staff based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
2. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across clinical teams, and in synthesis, adjusting and refining of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
3. 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.
4. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to staff members’ treatment.
5. To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical team(s) involved with care of staff members.
6. To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of staff members to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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1. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of staff based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with staff, family members and others involved in their care.
2. To formulate plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of staff members’ problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across clinical teams, and in synthesis, adjusting and refining of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. 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.
5. To address the needs of informal carers and family members as appropriate.
6. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment and discharge of staff members ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, and communicating and liaising with referrers and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
7. To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to staff members’ treatment.
8. To ensure that all members of the clinical team(s) in which the psychologist works have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of patients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual staff members and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
10. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under the consultant’s care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
11. To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical team(s) involved with care of staff members.
12. To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of staff members to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.
This advert closes on Friday 9 May 2025