Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new service development in Cheshire and Merseyside working alongside key stakeholders and partner agencies to enhance community provision for people who are autistic or who have a learning disability., You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including, Nurses, Occupational therapists, Speech and Language therapists , a Psychiatrist and other Psychologists. Your duties will include joint working with other professionals and services, completing assessments, interventions and supervising Assistant Psychologists. You will act as a resource to locally provided community learning disability teams, specialist autism services, social care providers and the criminal justice agencies.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent organisation and communication skills and be motivated to ensure high standards of proficiency and professional practise. They will demonstrate an ability to apply strategy to practice and have a clear commitment to person centred practices, demonstrating this in their work with individuals, families and other professionals.
The successful candidate must be willing to travel across Cheshire and Merseyside working with a number of partner agencies including health, social care and the Criminal Justice agencies., The post holder will be responsible for the undertaking psychological work with service users referred to the team. This is likely to be varied; going from individual work with service users to liaising and working with other members of the team, other services and partner agencies. Your work will be consistently person centred and involve the delivery of services to autistic people and individuals with learning disabilities who have additional complex needs. The post holder will report directly to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
The team sits within the Secure Care Division of Merseycare NHS trust, its remit is to deliver safe and effective services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
This post is advertised as a band 8a, we would be willing to accept application from newly qualified Psychologists, if successful they would be appointed at band 7 with a programme of competencies they had to achieve to reach the level required for the 8a post.
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We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

We welcome and will consider applications from applicants who are registered with the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist and have Post-graduate doctoral level training in the field of applied psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.