*** A Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will also be considered for this post ***
An exciting opportunity to provide a qualified clinical psychology service to individuals within the Early Intervention for Psychosis Service, offering psychological assessment and therapy, as well as advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professionals.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development within the area served by the team/service.
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all relevant sectors within an equality and human rights framework. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and other non-professional carers.
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. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Responsibilities include:
1. Providing specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based on the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from various sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, structured observations, and interviews with clients and involved parties.
2. Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients’ psychological problems based on an appropriate conceptual framework and employing evidence-based methods.
3. Implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as necessary.
4. Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and complex historical and developmental factors.
5. Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients managed by psychologically based standard and enhanced care plans.
6. Providing specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals contributing to clients’ formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.
7. Contributing to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care for all clients of the service across settings and agencies.
8. Undertaking risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and advising other professions on psychological aspects of these processes.
9. Communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner regarding the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under care, monitoring progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
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