Senior Practitioner Psychologist
| Posting date: | 23 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,528.00 to £64,750.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £57528.00 - £64750.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9287-26-0647 |
Summary
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.