Registered Practitioner Psychologist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 15 Ionawr 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £47,810 - £62,682 Preceptorship offered to newly qualified practitioners |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Maghull, L31 1FN |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7740280/350-SC7631435-A |
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To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the clinical 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 service users , family members and others involved in the patient’s care. To apply and maintain clinical skills acquired through further specialist training and experience to monitor and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialised psychological services within the designated clinical service, to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of
psychological practice within Psychological Services and delegated management responsibilities where appropriate. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the clinical area. To supervise doctoral level trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists as required
Rowan View is a Medium Secure Unit in which the psychology service has a valuable input. The main duties of the job include assessment and formulation of mental health and risk, delivery of trauma informed and offence related interventions, recovery, risk and safety formulation and planning, discharge planning, supervision, reflective practice, service delivery, along with research and CPD activities.
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 duties
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the clinical 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 service users , family members and others involved in the patient’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, 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 relevant theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and systemic processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based
standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals and/or carers, contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.
To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multidisciplinary care.
To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the team
Teaching, Training and Supervision
To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified HCPC registered psychologists attached to the team, where appropriate.
To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for the provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve service users functioning.
To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychologists and/or other psychological services staff, and other disciplines as appropriate.
To develop and maintain skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training.
To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
To receive regular professional supervision from a senior psychologist in the team and where appropriate other senior colleagues.
To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of psychology in line with HCPC, and where appropriate BPS, requirements.
To provide professional and clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and, as appropriate, supervise Doctoral level.
To contribute to the pre and post-qualification teaching of all relevant staff, as appropriate.
Management, Recruitment and Service Development
To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified psychologists.
To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality responsive and accessible service, including proposing and implementing changes within the psychological service.
To exercise delegated responsibility for managing psychology staff based within the psychology service.
Research and Service Evaluation
To contribute and where appropriate take a lead role, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of of service evaluation and audit
To Incorporate psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care and the improvement of services for service users and their families.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research as agreed with the line manager and Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist and provide research advice to team colleagues undertaking research.
To undertake a defined role in Service Governance structures if/when agreed with the
service lead
This advert closes on Monday 2 Feb 2026