Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
Location
Runcorn, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/7/2025
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Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Practitioner Psychologist looking for a new opportunity within our Adult Acute Mental Health Inpatient Speciality. The post holder will be based across the Mid Mersey inpatient footprint which includes Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Halton. The post will work clinically across two acute inpatient wards, one male and one female ward.
The main base will be at the Brooker centre, Runcorn, and the postholder will negotiate support in to other areas as agreed with the consultant psychologist.
We welcome applications from experienced band 8a's and current 8b’s who are looking to broaden and further develop their expertise. You will have significant and relevant experience working as a qualified practitioner psychologist. You will have direct clinical responsibility for two acute inpatient wards and will provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consistent with practitioner experience. You will support the consultant psychologist in leadership, management responsibilities, supervision and strategic service design.
You will work with the ward leadership team to drive forward the development and embedding of psychological models of care and you will work alongside teams to hold the psychological framework and trauma informed care in mind.
This is a great opportunity to join a caring, supportive and committed network of inpatient psychologists.
You will be responsible for the provision of specialist psychological assessment and formulation for severe and complex presentations across our inpatient wards.
You will provide clinical leadership through the provision of high quality clinical supervision, training and consultation within the teams. You will work with colleagues and clinical service leads to develop and contribute to service development, research projects and to maintain excellent standards of care.
The post requires an individual with initiative, excellent communication and leaderships skills and is able to work autonomously. An ability to be proactive and responsive to the needs of the ward is also essential.
To take clinical leadership responsibility in the implementation of psychological models of care for the inpatient units you are working on.
To provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consonant with practitioner experience and expertise.
The role will also involve providing supervision, training and consultation to staff whilst also providing highly specialist psychological assessments and intervention strategies. The job description recognises the need to ensure appropriate supervision and professional development as a core theme.
To exercise delegated responsibility for managing qualified and unqualified psychology staff and provide managerial support to all staff within your agreed workplan.
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: Dr Helen McGauley Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected]
The main base will be at the Brooker centre, Runcorn, and the postholder will negotiate support in to other areas as agreed with the consultant psychologist.
We welcome applications from experienced band 8a's and current 8b’s who are looking to broaden and further develop their expertise. You will have significant and relevant experience working as a qualified practitioner psychologist. You will have direct clinical responsibility for two acute inpatient wards and will provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consistent with practitioner experience. You will support the consultant psychologist in leadership, management responsibilities, supervision and strategic service design.
You will work with the ward leadership team to drive forward the development and embedding of psychological models of care and you will work alongside teams to hold the psychological framework and trauma informed care in mind.
This is a great opportunity to join a caring, supportive and committed network of inpatient psychologists.
You will be responsible for the provision of specialist psychological assessment and formulation for severe and complex presentations across our inpatient wards.
You will provide clinical leadership through the provision of high quality clinical supervision, training and consultation within the teams. You will work with colleagues and clinical service leads to develop and contribute to service development, research projects and to maintain excellent standards of care.
The post requires an individual with initiative, excellent communication and leaderships skills and is able to work autonomously. An ability to be proactive and responsive to the needs of the ward is also essential.
To take clinical leadership responsibility in the implementation of psychological models of care for the inpatient units you are working on.
To provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consonant with practitioner experience and expertise.
The role will also involve providing supervision, training and consultation to staff whilst also providing highly specialist psychological assessments and intervention strategies. The job description recognises the need to ensure appropriate supervision and professional development as a core theme.
To exercise delegated responsibility for managing qualified and unqualified psychology staff and provide managerial support to all staff within your agreed workplan.
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: Dr Helen McGauley Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [email protected]
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