Principal Clinical Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Eccles, M30 0BL |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7240380/350-SC7240380 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Clinical / Forensic psychologist to join an established team within the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (GMSST), which provides a service across Greater Manchester to service users with a learning disability and/or autism who present with risk of hospital admission, placement breakdown or forensic risk.
The GM SST is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy and Support Workers. You will be expected to work in all areas of Greater Manchester and liaise with the local Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism services to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support, as well as discharge support for current inpatients.
We are looking to recruit a motivated and experienced psychologist who is passionate about providing psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to individuals with LD and / or autistic people.
The successful applicant will take a lead role for the psychological provision within GMSST. They will have a key role in supervising newly qualified clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists and clinical psychology trainees. The successful applicant will develop complex formulations, offer supervision, consultancy, training and multi-agency working.
All candidates must be registered with the HCPC, meet the travel requirements, and have an interest in forensic/learning disability populations.
Responsible for the systematic provision of high quality psychological assessment, intervention, and risk management for service users under the care of the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team. This is a senior clinical role within the team and the post holder will adopt a leadership role and provide support to the team manager. Provide formal and structured psychological consultations with members of the multi-disciplinary team to contribute to well developed psychologically informed risk management plans for individual service users
To participate as required in recruitment, line-management, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs for designated psychological services staff working in wider rehabilitation service. To contribute to audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes as required by the service. To propose and assist in implementing policy and service development changes. To bring psychological expertise to resolving complex clinical and operational issues faced by the service/team.
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.
Clinical:
1. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests, self-report measures, rating scales direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals/carers/families and/or groups employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting
and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment of and discharge of clients whose problems are managed as a psychologically based care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan in an appropriate specialist area.
7. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory in an appropriate specialist area.
8. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for the MDT, psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
9. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
10. To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
11. To provide consultation about the psychological care of the client group to staff and agencies outside the Directorate and Trust in an appropriate specialist area.
Please see full Job Description attached.
This advert closes on Monday 16 Jun 2025