Consultant Clinical Psychologist

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting Consultant level vacancy has arisen for an experienced qualified Clinical Psychologist within secondary care adult mental health. The Warrington 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 Warrington 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.
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.
As a member of the divisional psychology leadership structure, the post holder would be expected to contribute to local and divisional service development, quality improvement and governance activities, as agreed with the divisional lead psychologist. Experience of research, audit and teaching and training staff groups in would also be beneficial, as would prior skills and training in relevant therapeutic approaches.
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. Training placements for all 3 North West Doctorate training courses in Clinical Psychology are routinely provided. The post holder will also have opportunities for Continuing Professional Development and be encouraged to contribute to the professional development of other staff members.
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.
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.

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