Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an Assistant Psychologist to our established Psychology Team which provides a community service across Greater Manchester to service users with a learning disability and/or autism who present with forensic risk or risk of hospital admission or placement breakdown.
The Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (SST), based in Eccles, provides additional support to those who are at risk of contact with the Criminal Justice System or Hospital admission. The SST is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, and Support Workers. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in multidisciplinary and systemic working, as the role involves liaising with the local Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism services and Criminal Justice agencies to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support.
Responsibilities
- Develop your skills of psychological formulation and advice and consultation under supervision of, and joint working with, qualified clinical psychologists.
- This role involves direct and indirect working to develop specialist risk assessments and formulations.
- You will receive regular clinical supervision from a qualified Clinical Psychologist.
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care and risk management of service users within the service and across all relevant agencies.
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Working Conditions
- The post holder is expected to work in a wide range of community settings. This includes working into service user's homes, supported living, and can include visits to prisons, approved premises and probation. The post holder will be primarily based in Eccles within our offices.
- The post holder is expected to work with service users, who can present with high risk of harm to themselves or others and can also have histories of offending.
- The post holder will work with potentially distressing material in relation to service users’ personal histories, offending behaviour and risks to self and others.
Key Tasks
- Undertake and/or contribute to psychological assessments/formulations of a service users’ presentation, needs and risk, which may include direct and/or indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users, carers and others involved in their care or management.
- Provide a psychological perspective into MDT meetings, work with staff teams around the person and be involved in staff training where needs arise.
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.
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- 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
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Rhiane Peers
- Job title: Principal Clinical psychologist
- Email address: rhiane.peers@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0161 383 4460
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