Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Knowsley

An exciting Consultant level vacancy has arisen for an experienced qualified Clinical Psychologist within secondary care adult mental health. 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.

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. 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.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder will have a strong interest and commitment to working with severe and complex psychological presentations and have established skills in delivering high quality psychological therapy within a secondary care setting.
• Experience of clinical, managerial and professional leadership would be beneficial.
• You will also be required to undertake and offer consultation and supervision to colleagues and trainees, and to have a clinical leadership role in the delivery and improvement of service provision for clients accessing the service.
• If successful, you will lead and manage a team of psychological professionals within a large multi-disciplinary Recovery Team.

Working for our organisation:

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. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems.
• To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment of and discharge of clients.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
• To ensure that all relevant staff have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service.

Person specification:

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a significant period.
• Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Post‑graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS.
• Registration with Health & Care Professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist.

Skills:

• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
• Well developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written.
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations.
• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena.

Knowledge:

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology.
• Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.