Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a practitioner psychologist (clinical or counselling) or psychological therapist to join the St Helens Step 4 Psychology Service. The post is a fixed-term 9-month role, with possible AFC band 7 or 8a depending on qualifications and experience, located in the St Helens Recovery Team within secondary care services.

The role centres on delivering specialist psychological assessment and therapy, supporting complex presentations, and offering

Qualifications

• Qualified clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, or psychological therapist.
• Experience in adult mental health and delivering therapy.
• Ability to supervise junior staff and trainees.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
• Offer consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and carers.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies.
• Provide clinical supervision to assistants and trainee psychologists.
• Engage in audit, service development, and research within the service.

Skills

Clinical psychology

Counselling psychology

Psychological therapy

Clinical supervision

Job description

Are you a creative, compassionate, and dedicated psychologist looking to develop your psychological therapy skills within a supportive team? If so then read on.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a practitioner psychologist (clinical or counselling) or psychological therapist to join St Helens Step 4 Psychology Service. Depending on qualifications and experience the post could be offered at AFC band 7 or 8a. The team sits with in the multidisciplinary Recovery team and comprises Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, EMDR therapists, specialist nurse practitioners and assistant psychologists. We also regularly offer placements to trainee clinical psychologists.

This is predominantly a clinical role and an excellent opportunity to develop psychological therapy skills. It is a secondary care service so clients presentations are complex often requiring bespoke and longer term approaches.

The post is fixed term for 9 month.

To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team at the St Helens Recovery Team, providing a qualified specialist psychological service to clients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

• 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 divisions and team’s policies and procedures.
• To provide clinical supervision to assistant and trainee psychologists.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Gina Smith Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01744 415 620