Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Role Overview
To apply psychological skills and experiences to support a psychologically informed, team based, multi-disciplinary intervention to individuals with complex needs, who screen into the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway. Resettle is an Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Service (IIRMS), offering a holistic intervention to individuals with previously unmet need. This role is pivotal in providing clinical support and leadership to the team, in partnership with the Senior Probation Officer with supervision from the Consultant Clinical & Forensic Psychologist and in partnership with the Assistant Chief Probation Officer. This will include deputising, chairing staff meetings, line management and supervision of staff, offering support, advice and consultation to the team. The role will involve working autonomously in offering assessments and interventions to service users. There will also be an opportunity to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research as appropriate and to propose and implement practice improvements within the service.
To support and deputise for the Consultants Clinical Psychologist/Joint Service Director in aspects of psychological and organisational/operational matters.
To formulate and implement plans for psychological interventions and risk management to address a service user's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, within the community or prison.
To plan, implement and manage a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To ensure that members of the team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through the provision of supervision, advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory to enhance the benefits of joint, inter-agency working.
To undertake line management responsibility of assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists and sociotherapists, within the framework of the Directorate's and team/service policies and procedures.
To be involved as required in the development, monitoring and evaluation of the team's operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
To participate as a senior clinician in the development and provision of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational issues need addressing.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for service users and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on the psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about intervention options, taking into account both the theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
Application Information
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children\'s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
About Mersey Care
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.
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