Clinical Psychologist Band 7/8a Preceptorship

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Widnes; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Halton (Runcorn/Widnes) invites applications for a band 7/8a preceptorship Clinical Psychologist to join the Halton Recovery Team. The post is full-time and focuses on trauma-informed assessments and therapies for adults with complex mental health needs.

You will supervise colleagues delivering psychological care, exercise governance of practice, and use research skills for audit, policy and service development to inform service improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering trauma-informed psychological care.
• Ability to supervise and support other psychology staff.
• Ability to work autonomously within professional guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide, supervise and support specialised psychological assessment and therapy.
• Exercise delegated management responsibilities and governance of practice.
• Use research skills for audit, policy, and service development.

Job description

We wish to recruit a band 7/8a preceptorship Clinical Psychologist for Halton Recovery Team. We are a large team of psychologists, psychological therapists, nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, pharmacist and support workers. We provide needs led care and therapy to adults in Runcorn and Widnes with complex mental health needs.

The successful candidate will join a passionate and welcoming team and provide trauma-informed interventions to clients and carers aged 18 upwards with a range of difficulties.

The post being advertised is full-time.

The post holder will provide, supervise and support the highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychological professions and other members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

The post holder will exercise delegated management responsibilities where appropriate and work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.

The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.

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.