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Bank Trainee Forensic Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Gorffennaf 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Awst 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Maghull, L31 1FN |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6434757/350-SCBank6434757 |
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Medium Secure Services are seeking a Trainee Practitioner Psychologist to support the team on Bank. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake a range of assessments, clinical interventions and other clinically relevant activities as agreed with their placement supervisor.
*This is a 12 month Bank post*
1. To undertake a structured post within a mental health clinical setting to facilitate learning and assessment leading towards part fulfilment of the Stage II of the qualification in Forensic Psychology
2. To undertake specialised psychological assessments, treatments and a range of clinical interventions with offenders with mental illness and personality disorder. To provide appropriate staff training in the multi-disciplinary delivery of psychologically-based interventions
3. To work under supervision on a day to day basis, within set guidelines, referring problems of formulation and intervention to the placement supervisor.
4. To undertake a research activity, policy review or case study as may be required.
5. To develop competencies, as set out by the by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Forensic Psychology for the requirements of Stage II training in Forensic Psychology. This will enable the candidate to achieve full registration as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, in the United Kingdom.
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.
Principal Responsibilities:
Clinical:
1. To undertake, under supervision, highly specialist assessments including risk assessments, assessments of personality disorder and structured mental illness assessments and assessment of cognitive function.
1. To conduct, under supervision, specialist psychological assessments, including the use of psychometric tests, and a range of other quantitative and qualitative measures and approaches such as interviews and observation.
1. To develop psychological formulations of clinical problems, and to use such formulations to design and implement appropriate individualised care plans and interventions under supervision.
1. To evaluate the psychological interventions, involving patients, care teams, carers, etc, and to review and adjust psychological treatment and management plans accordingly.
1. To communicate confidential, sensitive and personal information concerning risk and psychological needs obtained through assessments and interventions, to referring agents and to the patients (who may have limited understanding and difficulties with acceptance) and also, where appropriate, to relatives and carers.
1. To provide specialist consultancy, advice, and clinically based supervision to care teams about the care and management of the patient’s problems in line with developing competence.
1. To deliver group based interventions and undertake all relevant activities associated with such activities.
1. To keep appropriate records of work and inform referrers and relevant others through letters or reports.
1. To work, as required as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
This advert closes on Friday 19 Jul 2024