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 believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. 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. 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. 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 to other, non-professionals. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures. Main duties of the job
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. 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. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate’s and team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. 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. 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. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients. 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 the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. 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 Discreet 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. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. 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 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. 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 to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
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