We are looking for qualified practitioner psychologists with experience, skills, and enthusiasm to help provide quality services for older people and people living with dementia across Liverpool and Sefton.
You would be part of a large psychology team, consisting of clinical and counselling psychologists and assistant psychologists, with strong values related to person-centred care and human rights-based approaches. We promote a ‘shared-team learning’ ethos with regular opportunities for CPD, reflective practice, and group supervision. We also regularly have trainee psychologists on placement with us and we are proud of our links with the local clinical psychology training programmes.
Each of the roles would also involve being part of a wider multi-disciplinary team; the post holder would be required to offer specialist advice, leadership, and consultation to non-psychologist colleagues. The role would also involve the development of psychological skills across the whole workforce through speciality training, supervision, mentorship, and reflective practice. You will be encouraged to champion psychological interventions and working partnerships within the wider teams.
You’ll also work to support people with a range of psychological issues by providing specialist psychological assessment, therapy, and interventions to service users and carers. As a team, we regularly utilise a broad range of models. We also routinely complete neuropsychological assessments and, as such, we have group neuropsychological supervision once every two weeks.
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.
We are looking for someone with a strong commitment to social justice as we are committed to supporting people from socially disadvantaged communities and advocating for the needs of older people and people living with dementia. We are also looking for someone with excellent communication and people skills and a proven passion for improving the lives of clients and their families.
You may be expected to audit and evaluate a range of outcomes in terms of the benefit for service users, staff, and the wider service. Furthermore, within the team, we are keen to encourage research submissions to relevant conferences and for publication. An active interest in research, publication, and supporting others to develop their evaluation skills will therefore be an advantage.
All posts are suitable for newly qualified and current clinicians. Relevant training, support, and experience will be provided to ensure that if you’re successful, you’ll be eligible to apply for preceptorship to an 8a clinical psychology post - if professional qualifications allow and after demonstrating significant demonstrable post-qualifying experience. If you already have relevant training and experience, you’ll be able to start at band 8a.
There are a number of posts available:
1. 1.3wte Liverpool & Kirkby CMHT
2. 0.5wte Fern ward
3. 0.5wte Southport CMHT
Can you please state in your application which post(s) you are interested in and whether you are seeking full or part time hours.
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