Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Practitioner Psychologist
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Job Description
About the Role
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the clinical service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members, and others involved in the patient’s care.
To apply and maintain clinical skills acquired through further specialist training and experience to monitor and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialized psychological services within the designated clinical service. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Psychological Services and delegated management responsibilities where appropriate.
To utilize research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the clinical area. To supervise doctoral-level trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists as required.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Rowan View
Rowan View is a Medium Secure Unit in which the psychology service has a valuable input. The main duties of the job include:
- Assessment and formulation of mental health and risk
- Delivery of trauma-informed and offence-related interventions
- Recovery, risk, and safety formulation and planning
- Discharge planning
- Supervision
- Reflective practice
- Service delivery
- Research and CPD activities
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.
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.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
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 organizational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Peter Barrett
- Job title: Principle Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: Peter.Barrett@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 459 5610
Alternatively,
- Name: Dr Jules Carlisle
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: julie.carlisle@merseycare.nhs.uk
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location