Clinical Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Medi 2025 |
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Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 Per Annum - Development role, band 7 - 8a would be considered |
Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
Dyddiad cau: | 09 Tachwedd 2025 |
Lleoliad: | Runcorn, WA7 5HQ |
Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7477596/350-CC7477596 |
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There is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Edge of Care Team that is working across health and social care to support children, young people and families in Halton.
This is a newly created team and works across Halton Borough Council and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an experienced practitioner who is keen to continue their career and use their skills in working with children and families who require intensive support.
It would be expected that the practitioner would have expertise and experience of working with children and families.
This team will work alongside Child in Need and Child Protection Teams within Children’s Social Care in Halton supporting those families who are on the edge of care.
This will take place in a newly refurbished community centre in Runcorn as well as in the home and community.
The clinician will support children and families directly and also offer consultation and supervision to others around the child and family.
They will be responsible for supporting the mental health needs of the child and family and will consider any suitable interventions and support required.
There will be an expectation to offer supervision to staff within the service and also to offer consultation and support to other agencies in order to improve outcomes for families in Halton.
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all relevant sectors within an equality and human rights framework.
To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate’s and team’s policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
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.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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.
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.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses where appropriate.
To evaluate and make 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.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based enhanced care plans.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and reviewing of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
This advert closes on Monday 27 Oct 2025