Registered Practitioner Psychologist

Posting date:	16 January 2026
Salary:	£47,810.00 to £62,682.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£47810.00 - £62682.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 February 2026
Location:	Maghull, L31 1FN
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9350-26-0054

Summary

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-structuredinterviews with service users , family members and others involved in the patients care. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients 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 basedstandard 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 theservice lead