Senior Practitioner Psychologist | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Ebrill 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Mai 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Cwmni: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7913361/287-CEF-114-26 |
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We are looking for a Senior Practitioner Psychologist to provide a high quality and highly specialised psychology service for Trust staff. The successful candidate will provide appropriate support for Trust staff that is complementary to the resources offered regionally and nationally.
You will be a highly specialist resource on psychological care to the wider service and will coordinate and contribute to providing education, training and supervision activities to enhance psychological support and treatment across the service.
This post is for 12 months maternity cover, 22.5 hours per week.
To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of staff based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions, and in synthesis, adjusting and refining of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to staff members’ treatment.
To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical team(s) involved with care of staff members.
To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of staff members to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
To provide highly developed. specialist psychological assessments of staff 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 staff, family members and others involved in their care.
To formulate plans for formal psychological treatment and/or management of patients based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of staff members' problems and care employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across clinical teams and in synthesis, adjusting and refining of psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To make highly skilled evaluations and 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 address the needs of informal carers and family members as appropriate.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment and discharge of staff members ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions and communicating and liaising with referrers and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
This advert closes on Wednesday 6 May 2026