Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Psychologist

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Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/11/2025
Description
We have an exciting vacancy for an Assistant Psychologist Band 4 to join our Step Forward Sefton & Kirkby Service. You will be joining a dedicated team and you will provide care for people with complex mental health difficulties and experiences of trauma. You will be supported by an experienced MDT.

For further information on the role please contact Dr Nazik Nemat - Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Dr Karen Poole, Principal Clinical Psychologist

[email protected]

[email protected]

The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the Step Forward Sefton & Kirkby team by delivering effective and evidence-based psychological therapies. Under supervision and with access to relevant CPD opportunities the Assistant Psychologist will also undertake direct work with clients individually and in group settings. The Assistant Psychologist will work closely with qualified Clinical Psychology colleagues on research and audit projects and will be expected to be an active member of the MDT.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nazik Nemat Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected]

Karen Poole

Principal Clinical Psychologist

[email protected]
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