Band 8a (Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will be considered)
Main area: Early Intervention in Psychosis Sefton - Mental Health Division
Grade: Band 8a (Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will be considered)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6836539
Site: South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce.
Job overview
*** A Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will also be considered for this post ***
An exciting opportunity to provide a qualified clinical psychology service to individuals within the Early Intervention for Psychosis Service, providing psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on individuals’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professionals. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all relevant sectors within an equality and human rights framework.
2. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers.
3. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate’s and team’s policies and procedures.
4. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. 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.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
8. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its approved equivalent accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with Health Professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist.
* Postgraduate/doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* UKCP, BABCP or BACP Accreditation (or equivalent).
Knowledge/Experience
* Qualified clinical psychologist.
* Significant experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management.
* Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis.
* Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
* Past experience and interest in working with those who have experienced Psychosis.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Change oriented
Skills
* Well developed and effective communication skills, oral and written.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
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