Clinical/Counselling Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £62,682 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | St Helens, WA9 3DE |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7626639/350-MHC7552918-A |
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Are you a creative, compassionate and dedicated Psychologist looking to develop your psychological therapy skills within a supportive team? If so then read on.
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Applied Psychologist (clinical or counselling) or Psychological Therapist to join St Helens Step 4 Psychology Service. Depending on qualifications and experience the post could be offered at AFC Band 7 (as a preceptorship role) or Band 8a.
The team sits within the multidisciplinary Recovery team and comprises Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, EMDR therapists, specialist nurse practitioners and assistant psychologists. We also regularly offer placements to trainee clinical psychologists.
This is predominantly a clinical role and an excellent opportunity to develop psychological therapy skills. It is a secondary care service so clients presentations are complex often requiring bespoke and longer term approaches.
Further training to enhance clinical skills is supported and encouraged, over the past four years team members have trained in the following: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT), schema therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT), Behavioural Family therapy (BFT) and Structured Psychological Support (SPS).
Depending on qualifications and experience other key parts of the role may include supervision of other staff members, co-facilitating therapy groups or contributing to service design and development.
The main duties of the role will be providing 1:1 psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to clients referred into the service.
Our service users have complex presentations and difficulties and often liaison with other professionals, teams, or agencies involved in the clients care is needed. The successful candidate would be expected to contribute to a psychologically based framework for understanding their clients across these settings.
Depending on experience, supervision of trainee clinical psychologists or other members of the psychological therapies team may form part of the role.
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 psychological therapies service sits in the multidisciplinary St Helens Recovery team so MDT working is also a key requirement of this role.
The psychological therapies team is a supportive team. As well as regular supervision there are numerous weekly forums where practitioners can obtain further support.
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information**
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025