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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to work within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the Eating Disorder Service in Knowsley & St Helens. The post is suitable for both newly qualified and current band 8a’s. The service will offer relevant training and support to ensure newly qualified applicants are eligible for preceptorship to an 8a Clinical Psychology post.
This is a full-time permanent post.
The service is based at Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre on the Whiston Hospital Site. We are a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team consisting of Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners, a dietitian, OT, CBT Therapists, Mental Health Nurse, and Peer Support Worker.
The service offers group and individual interventions utilising a range of models including CBT, MANTRA, SSCM, CFT, EMDR, Psycho-education and Motivational Interviewing.
Applicants must have a recognised qualification (or be in the process of completing training) at a post-graduate doctorate level in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent.
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service, 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 to other, non professional carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate’s and team’s policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
A workplan will be developed with the postholder which will be reviewed on a yearly basis depending on the needs of the service.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Debra Quine Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: debra.quine@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 3518600
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