Assistant Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 26 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2025 |
| Location: | Maghull, L31 1HW |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7413713/350-SC7413713 |
Summary
Ashworth Hospital High Secure Psychological Services are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic full time assistant psychologist for a twelve month fixed term period. You will need a drive to assist in the delivery of high quality psychological assessment and treatment to patients detained under the Mental Health Act and require placement within a high secure hospital due to the complexity of their presentations and associated risks. Within the hospital, psychological services deliver a wide range of assessments and treatments in relation to mental health, personality difficulties and offending behaviour risks. We provide treatment with a focus on those factors that will allow patients to a progress to lower secure placements in line with a least restrictive approach. Ideally, you will need experience of working with complex individuals.
The department consists of a mix of clinical and forensic psychologists, a cognitive behavioural therapist and a nurse therapist. We have close links with both local and international universities and provide placements for trainee clinical and trainee forensic psychologists. The service has developed innovative clinical interventions and research.
We will welcome applications from enthusiastic, highly motivated and resourceful individuals who are keen to work as part of a 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.
Please refer to the attached detailed job description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025