Registered Practitioner Psychologist

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly skilled psychologist to provide specialist assessments and integrate data from psychological tests, self-reports and observations. You will develop treatment plans, deliver interventions, and supervise trainees within professional guidelines while promoting high standards of care.

You will contribute to audit, policy development and service improvement, using research to inform practice and ensuring governance of psychological services across

Qualifications

• Specialist psychological assessments using multiple data sources.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on evidence.
• Provide psychological advice and support to other professionals.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and implement treatment plans based on evidence.
• Deliver individual and group psychological interventions.
• Conduct risk assessments and advise on risk management.
• Supervise doctoral trainees as required.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Risk assessment

Autonomous practice

Clinical governance

Education

Doctorate in Psychology (D Clin or PhD)

Tools

Neuropsychological tests

Rating scales

Job description

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 ethnically diverse, 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.

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Job overview

To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the clinical service 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 service users, family members and others involved in the patient’s care.

To apply and maintain clinical skills acquired through further specialist training and experience to monitor and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialised psychological services within the designated clinical service, to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Psychological Services and delegated management responsibilities where appropriate.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the clinical area. To supervise doctoral level trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists as required.

Main duties of the job

Rowan View is a Medium Secure Unit in which the psychology service has a valuable input. The main duties of the job include assessment and formulation of mental health and risk, delivery of trauma informed and offence related interventions, recovery, risk and safety formulation and planning, discharge planning, supervision, reflective practice, service delivery, along with research and CPD activities.

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

Clinical duties

To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the clinical service 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 service users , family members and others involved in the patient’s care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses where appropriate.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and systemic processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals and/or carers, contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.

To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

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