Main area: Older Adult Psychology Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent: 1.5 WTE Band 4 Assistant Psychologist Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 350-MHC6952109
Site: Leigh Moss Hospital Town Liverpool Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum Salary period: Yearly Closing: 12/02/2025 23:59
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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. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We are looking for 1.5 WTE Assistant Psychologists with enthusiasm to help provide quality services for older people and people living with dementia in the Merseyside region. The roles are as follows:
* 1.0- Liverpool and Kirkby Older Person’s Community Mental Health Team
* 0.5-Ward for people living with dementia (Fern Ward- Liverpool)
The successful applicants 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.
Main duties of the job
We promote a ‘shared-team learning’ ethos with regular opportunities for CPD, reflective practice and group supervision. We regularly have trainee psychologists on placement with us and we are proud of our links with the local clinical psychology training programme. Each of the roles would also involve being part of a wider multi-disciplinary team; where, you would be encouraged to champion psychological interventions and work in partnership within the wider teams.
You’ll also work to support people with a range of psychological issues by providing 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 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 and publication, will therefore be an advantage.
We would encourage you to please state in your application which post(s) you are interested in and whether you are seeking full or part time hours.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
EXPERIENCE
* Previous experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities
* Received teaching/training in the application of psychological principles to mental health problems
* Experience of research, service evaluation and/or audits
* Experience of paid work in a direct care provision.
* Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist in an NHS setting.
* Experience of completing psychometric assessments.
* Experience of research, evaluations and/or audits in the application of psychological principles to mental health problems
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
* Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis
* Experience of report writing.
* Demonstrated high level ability to communicate sensitive information to service users, carers and colleagues in a way that facilitates engagement
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
* A demonstrated ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
* An understanding of psychological principles applied to health care.
* Skills in SPSS for Windows.
* Undertaking further relevant post-graduate study leading to recognised qualification.
PERSONAL
* Clear experience of interacting effectively with staff from all disciplines
* An interest in working with people with mental health problems or other disabilities
* Clear experience of interacting with people with mental health problems
* Ability to work with a high level of autonomy within the boundaries of the assistant role.
OTHER
* Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
* A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
* A second class honours degree or higher in psychology or psychology as a main subject
* Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
* Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
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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. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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