Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Psychologist

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Location
Widnes, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/8/2025
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Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 C's (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Halton community learning disability team.

The post holders will work as part of our established and highly supportive multi-disciplinary teams. Core clinical functions include aspects of assessment, intervention, consultation, clinical team formulation, training, working with and across multi-disciplinary teams and systems, and supporting our programme of audit and research.

You will be joining an established group of clinical psychologists with a wide range of experience and interests. The post holder will receive clinical and managerial supervision, have links to peer psychology meetings and appropriate training and CPD opportunities and an annual personal development review.

The post holder will work to provide assessment, formulation and, where appropriate, intervention to service users who present with complex mental health problems. Delivery of staff training and support for supporting teams/services regarding psychological principles is fundamental to this role.

The post holder will be responsible for the systematic provision of specialist psychological services for people suffering primarily from common and complex mental health problems. In particular, to provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consonant with the practitioners experience and expertise. Such services to include the development and implementation of specialist psychological assessment and intervention strategies including clinical casework and the provision of consultancy work generally for the assurance of quality in the use of psychological methods by other team 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Birchall-Smith Job title: Operational Manager/Principal OT Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0151 351 8899

Alastair Barrowcliff - Consultant Clinical Psychologist

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0151 426 5885
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