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Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Location: | Southport, PR8 6PL |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6387186/350-CC6387186 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dedicated Clinical Psychologist to be part of our friendly Autism Spectrum Condition service. The service assesses adults aged 18+ in Liverpool and Sefton. It is an exciting time to be joining the team as we develop our services alongside nationally changing perceptions and awareness of Autism and collaborate with our colleagues within our trust as we aim to reshape how autism is understood and supported.
We welcome and will consider applications from applicants who are registered with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist and have Post-graduate doctoral level training in the field of applied psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including, Nurses, Occupational therapists, social workers speech and language therapist and other Psychologists, all of whom have a wealth of knowledge and experience. You will work as an autonomous highly skilled practitioner carry out specialised assessments of Autism. The team has clinicians trained in ADI-R, ADOS and DISCO. You will provide advice and consultation to other clinical staff within the team and with our colleagues within other Trust services.
You will contribute and lead formulations taking into account where additional complexities such as mental health, attachment, mild learning disability, or other neurodevelopmental conditions are present.
You will provide advice and consultation to locally provided community mental health teams, inpatient services, community learning disability teams, social care providers and the criminal justice agencies.
You will work alongside the senior Clinical Psychologist to be involved in ongoing service development and in shaping service innovations.
We offer placements to trainees from local universities on a regular basis and the post holder would be expected to clinically supervise and manage the workloads of assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists within the service as required.
You will contribute towards the continuing professional development, training, research, advising and supporting the Multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
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.
The post holder will be responsible for the undertaking psychological work with service users referred to the team. This is likely to be varied; going from individual work with service users to liaising and working with other members of the team, other services and partner agencies. Your work will be consistently person centred and involve the delivery of services to autistic people. The post holder will report directly to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
The team sits within the Community Care Division of Merseycare NHS trust; its remit is to deliver safe and effective services across Merseyside.
This post is advertised as a band 8a; we would be willing to accept application from newly qualified Psychologists, if successful they would be appointed at band 7 with a programme of competencies they had to achieve to reach the level required for the 8a post.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent organisation and communication skills and be motivated to ensure high standards of proficiency and professional practise.
You will demonstrate an ability to apply strategy to practice and have a clear commitment to person centred practices, demonstrating this in your work with individuals, families and other professionals.
The post holder will report directly to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
This post is advertised as a band 8a, we would be willing to accept application from newly qualified Psychologists, if successful they would be appointed at band 7 with a programme of competencies they had to achieve to reach the level required for the 8a post.
This advert closes on Wednesday 26 Jun 2024