Registered Principal Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Liverpool is seeking a Senior Clinical Psychologist to provide clinical leadership and conduct psychological assessments for clients with complex needs. You will manage a multi-disciplinary team and ensure the delivery of high-quality psychological interventions. The ideal candidate will have a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a strong background in risk management. This role offers opportunities for research and service development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway is preferred.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Strong skills in formulating psychological interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the team.
• Conduct autonomous clinical assessments.
• Manage and evaluate psychological interventions.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychological assessment

Risk management

Research skills

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

To apply psychological skills and experiences to support a psychologically informed, team-based, multi-disciplinary intervention for individuals with complex needs who screen into the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway. Resettle is an Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Service (IIRMS) offering a holistic intervention to individuals with previously unmet need. This role provides clinical leadership to the team, in partnership with the Senior Probation Officer, under supervision from the Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist and in partnership with the Assistant Chief Probation Officer. The role will involve deputising, chairing staff meetings, line management and supervision of staff, offering support, advice and consultation to the team. The post will involve autonomous clinical assessments and interventions, with opportunities to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development, and to propose and implement practice improvements within the service.

To support and deputise for the Consultants Clinical Psychologist/Joint Service Director in aspects of psychological and organisational/operational matters.

To formulate and implement plans for psychological interventions and risk management to address a service user’s psychological problems, based on an appropriate conceptual framework and methods with evidence of efficacy, within the community or prison.

To plan, implement and manage a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, refining psychological formulations drawing on different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

To ensure that team members have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through supervision, advice and consultation, and dissemination of psychological research and theory to enhance joint inter-agency working.

To undertake line management responsibility of assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists and sociotherapists, within the Directorate’s and team/service policies and procedures.

To contribute to the development, monitoring and evaluation of the team’s operational policies through research, service evaluation and audit, ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for high quality care.

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 and commissioned for services across 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 delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality and safely reduce cost.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

These are all indicated in the attached Job Description.

To participate as a senior clinician in the development and provision of a high quality, responsive and accessible service, including advising service and professional management on psychological and/or organisational issues that need addressing.

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

To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about intervention options, taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.

This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025