Senior Psychotherapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Warrington is seeking an experienced Senior Psychotherapist/Clinical Psychologist for the Warrington Recovery Team. The role involves monitoring specialized psychological services, supporting clinical staff, and driving policy changes within mental health care, all within an equality framework. Ideal candidates will have a doctoral degree and demonstrable experience in mental health settings. Training and professional development opportunities are available.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in providing psychological services.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage responsibilities.
• Understanding of equality and human rights framework in care.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and ensure provision of specialised psychological services.
• Supervise and support clinical team members.
• Utilise research skills for policy and service development.

Skills

Supervisory skills

Research skills

Experience in mental health care

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Role Overview

The post holder will apply and maintain those skills acquired through further specialist training and experience to monitor and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialised psychological services, provide a service to clients referred to the team, across all sectors of care, within an equality and human rights framework care, and supervise and support the other clinical 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.

Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Psychotherapist/Clinical Psychologist to work within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the Warrington Recovery Team.

Team

Warrington Recovery Team are a large specialist secondary care community mental health Team. The successful applicant would be part of a large team of psychologists, CBT/EMDR therapists, assistant psychologists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, support workers, psychiatry and peer workers. You will be joining a hard working and busy team providing holistic care/therapies with people who experience complex mental health difficulties.

Training & Development

Inline with Mersey Care's community transformation program we are working in partnership with our primary care colleagues and strive to provide a seamless mental health offer. Our Recovery Teams provide high quality intervention-based care in both high and low intensity formats. Training opportunities will be available and you will be supported to follow CPD opportunities to further develop your career.

About Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Commitment & 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. 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.