Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC6256732-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Alders
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time qualified Clinical Psychologist within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to join an expanding multidisciplinary team meeting the needs of Children and Young People (age up to 18) in Warrington.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:-
Promote safe practices
- Value the aims of service users
- Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
- Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
- Value social inclusion
No Wrong Door’ is a nationally recognised innovative programme working with complex adolescents who are within or on the edge of the care
system. ‘No Wrong Door’ integrates residential care, foster care, speech and language support, mental health services and the police into a single
hub that is based in a residential home.
North Yorkshire Borough Council devised the ‘No Wrong Door’ model and Warrington’s partner agencies (council, health and police) are now
working with them to launch the model in Warrington, as part of the Department of Education’s flagship £84 million Strengthening Families
Protecting Children (SFPC) programme.
The Life Coach is a non-traditional role who will need to “think differently” and undertake inventive and unscheduled approaches to therapy with
young people.
The Life Coach will work closely in planned collaboration with the whole No Wrong Door staff team.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in the pioneering No Wrong Door Service as a Life Coach. The Life Coach will be a
crucial member of the embedded Hub team, providing an approachable, flexible yet robust clinical role comfortable in listening to, enabling and
drawing out the potential of these often hard to reach, challenging young people using life coaching skills in informal settings.
*A development opportunity will be considered for a competent, committed and experienced clinical psychologist (band 7 with the plan to
progress to band 8a once fully competent in the role).
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children's and adults barred list. Successful candidates will
either have a valid DBS check with the Trust or will be required to pay for the cost of the DBS Disclosure which is £47.50 for an enhanced
disclosure, the cost of which will be deducted from first salary.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This job description is an outline and account of the main duties. Any changes will be discussed with the post holder in advance but will also be reviewed regularly to take into account changes and developments in service requirements. The post holder has the right to request a review should they feel there have been significant changes to their role.
Note: The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information.
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.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
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All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team is able to prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of further study/ qualification in the field of children and young people’s mental health
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Manley
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 575904
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