Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
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An exciting Consultant level vacancy has arisen for an experienced qualified Clinical Psychologist within secondary care adult mental health.
About the Role
The Knowsley Recovery Team is looking to recruit a Band 8C Consultant Clinical Psychologist to contribute to our current Psychology provision within the Team. This role includes responsibility for providing clinical leadership and ensuring the delivery of high quality psychological care within the Knowsley team.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership within the Knowsley team.
- Ensure the delivery of high quality psychological care.
- Contribute to local and divisional service development, quality improvement, and governance activities.
- Offer consultation and supervision to colleagues and trainees.
- Have a clinical leadership role in the delivery and improvement of service provision for clients accessing the service.
Requirements
- Strong interest and commitment to working with severe and complex psychological presentations.
- Established skills in delivering high quality psychological therapy within a secondary care setting.
- Experience of clinical, managerial, and professional leadership would be beneficial.
- Experience of research, audit, and teaching and training staff groups would also be beneficial.
- Prior skills and training in relevant therapeutic approaches.
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About the Team
We pride ourselves on being a supportive leadership team and there are many opportunities for both individual and peer support and supervision as well as CPD opportunities.
About Mersey Care
At Mersey Care we strive to continually build on our values and beliefs that will allow all our workforce to develop their potential and bring their whole self into the organisation. In order to strengthen our inclusivity and diversity, we recognise the need to ensure we become more representative of the communities we serve. This is recognised in the NHS England EDI Workforce Improvement Plan 2023 and NHS Workplace Race Equality Standard that in senior NHS Leadership positions, there is an underrepresentation of Black and Asian Minority colleagues (BME). As such we strongly encourage applications from those from underrepresented communities.
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
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Frank Chapman
- Job title: Deputy Associate Director of Psychology Services
- Email address: frank.chapman@merseycare.nhs.uk
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