Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist to join a Psychology service based within a Community Mental Health Team in Liverpool. You will be joining a CMHT where nursing and OT colleagues are psychological minded who also offer psychological interventions as part of their work with service users.
We are looking for a caring, compassionate, enthusiastic and committed person who is trained and accredited in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to join us and be part of a team of psychologists, psychotherapists, CBT/EMDR therapists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, support workers and psychiatrists. You would be joining a small, Psychology team who support one another and have regular contact with one another during their working day.
A stepped care model is used to provide service users with a range of psychological interventions, appropriate to the level of need. You would be joining a service that includes a Principal Clinical Psychologist, a Specialist Psychotherapist, a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Psychologist.
It is a varied role, suited to those who enjoy the challenge of engaging service users in a secondary care setting and who enjoy working in a Multidisciplinary team. As well as opportunities to do 1:1 and group clinical work, there are also opportunities for consultation, training and reflective practice.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate's and team's policies and procedures.
- Work with individuals from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when required.
- Provide attendance at weekly MDT clinical, Psychology and business meetings.
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and team policies.
Working Environment
You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary teams based at Moss House in Garston, providing a qualified specialist cognitive behavioural psychotherapy service to clients with complex mental health difficulties.
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 Meryl Kilshaw
- Job Title: Principal Clinical Psychologist
- Email Address: meryl.kilshaw@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 0151 330 8158
Please feel free to contact Meryl Kilshaw if you wish to discuss the post and alternative working hours.
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