Talking Therapies Supervision Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | St Helens, WA9 3DA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6190654/350-CC6190654 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an appropriately qualified Practitioner Psychologist or Psychotherapist to lead on the provision and governance of high quality supervision for the Talking Therapies Services across Merseycare.
In recognition of the importance of high quality supervision this a newly created post, the successful candidate will work closely and an integral member of the Talking Therapies Clinical Leadership Team. They will influence the strategic vision of supervision across the Talking Therapies Services with particular emphasis on quality of supervision provision within the teams.
It is expected that the successful candidate will work flexibly across the 4 Talking Therapies Services (Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Liverpool).
The post holder will be an experienced clinical or counselling psychologist, an appropriately qualified and accredited/registered High Intensity Therapist with additional qualification and experience in supervision
or from a counselling, nursing, social work background with a nationally recognised qualification and experience to deliver High Intensity Therapy and supervision who will be responsible for the systematic provision of primary care psychology services to adults with mental health problems in the MERSEYCARE area, including GPs surgeries and other community venues. This is to incorporate complex assessments leading to psychological formulations of distress; interpretation, under professional supervision, of
assessment instruments and forming judgements for treatment options.
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.
1. To be part of an NHS Talking Therapies service and deliver step 3 treatment interventions as well as acting as an expert resource across the 2 steps covered by the service.
2. To provide primary care services within the field of adult mental health to adults covered by the team. In doing so will be responsible for adhering to relevant Trust policies and professional ethics and standards. Will be accountable for professional and clinical actions.
3. As a clinician with specialist post-qualification training, the post holder will participate in taking responsibility for development of training, supervision and governance aspects of the specific therapeutic model.
4. To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist therapeutic service, to clients of the service team, across all aspects of care. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other members of the team who provide psychologically
based care and treatment. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
5. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/ service.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024