Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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Assistant Psychologist
Assistant Psychologist for the Mental Health Treatment Requirement
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Mersey Care to work as an Assistant Psychologist for the Mental Health Treatment Requirement across Merseyside. This service provides the assessments and psychological interventions with people who have been given Mental Health Treatment Requirements.
There are currently 3 vacancies - to work across Liverpool & Sefton Probation Offices.
The service covers Merseyside and Cheshire, working across the courts and probation services in these regions. You will spend your mornings at court assessing individuals for their suitability for an MHTR. You will also work across their local National Probation services, where you will provide short term psychological intervention. As such, travel is apart of this role.
You will be part of a wider team with regular supervision, joint working, CPD, and reflective practice.
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The role will be to provide short-term psychological interventions for a range of psychological difficulties and experiences, including low mood and anxiety, anger, loss, trauma, interpersonal problems and learning difficulties. There will also be the opportunity to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post holder will be expected to work in a range of settings.
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.
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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: Dr Mark Walton
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: mark.walton@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 330 6430
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