Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist - Resilience Hub

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We are recruiting to a Band 8a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist within our Cheshire and Merseyside Resilience Hub on a secondment or temporary basis until 31st March 2022. We welcome applicants who are a Clinical Psychologist, Health Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist or Forensic Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist. The Hub adopts a holistic approach and offers a service to staff working within NHS, Social Care, Primary Care and Emergency Services across Cheshire and Merseyside to provide high quality self-care and self-help resources, clinical triage, assessment and signposting as well as clinical intervention when required. The Hub delivers specialist training, advice, consultation and clinical supervision on an individual or team basis to enhance knowledge and skills amongst professionals to promote and build resilience in the workforce.

Shortlisting is planned for: 23rd August 2021

Interviews are planned for: 2nd September 2021

The post holder will supervise and support the highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychological professions and other members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

The post holder will exercise delegated management responsibilities where appropriate and work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the Resilience Hub.

The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the Resilience Hub.

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist inpatient and community mental health, learning disabilities, addiction and acquired brain injury services for the people of Liverpool, Sefton and Kirkby, Merseyside. We also provide community physical health services in Liverpool, Sefton, secure mental health services for the North West of England, the West Midlands and Wales and specialist learning disability services across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside.

Our ambition is to deliver perfect care to become the world’s leading organisation in holistic health and well being.

Mersey Care’s vision and values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm and Support (CARES) drive our organisation and the way we work together to deliver services. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate, during recruitment and any subsequent employment with the Trust, that their behaviour supports our values.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vicky Penketh Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: Vicky.Penketh@merseycare.nhs.uk