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At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Halton & Warrington Community Learning Disability Teams (CLDT) for a Principal Clinical Psychologist to clinically lead the Intensive Support Function of our Teams.The post holder will provide strategic and clinical leadership for the delivery of the ISF function across the Halton & Warrington CLDT.
They will be required to contribute specialist psychological knowledge and leadership to support the teams in the provision of specialist assessment, therapy, risk assessment and risk management plans to those individuals who have a learning disability with complex presentations, including people with behaviours of concern, autism, and forensic difficulties, and to their support systems.
The job requires the post holder to lead on and utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the teams/service.
The service model is one of supporting people who present with behaviours of concern, working closely with specialist practitioners and other health professionals to support this complex group of individuals to remain in their community setting and, where an appropriate admission has occurred, to be discharged promptly and safely in line with national Transforming Care strategy.
They will have clinical oversight of team caseload, particularly those who are on the dynamic support database and presenting in crisis with a risk to admission into hospital and/or placement breakdown.
Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 C's to life? If so, we want to hear from you.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an evolving team and at the same time be part of well-established community learning disability teams working alongside Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nurses and Assistants of each discipline. The ISF model includes Principal Clinical Psychologist, Advanced Practitioner, Forensic Practitioner, Assistant Psychologist and Community LD Support Worker
We are looking for a confident individual who will be able to provide strategic and clinical leadership. In return the you will receive clinical and managerial supervision, have links to peer psychology meetings and appropriate training and CPD opportunities and an annual personal development review.
Our core operational hours are between 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday. Applicants must be able to be flexible with their working patterns to meet the needs of the service.
The ability, means and willingness to travel between multiple sites in the course of performing duties is essential. The role will involve regular travel across multiple sites in the Mersey Care Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. Therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post. Please indicate on your application how you meet this requirement.
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: Alastair Barrowcliff Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:
Jane Birchall-Smith -
Operational Manager/Principal Occupational Therapist
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Halton & Warrington Community Learning Disability Teams (CLDT) for a Principal Clinical Psychologist to clinically lead the Intensive Support Function of our Teams.
The post holder will provide strategic and clinical leadership for the delivery of the ISF function across the Halton & Warrington CLDT.
They will be required to contribute specialist psychological knowledge and leadership to support the teams in the provision of specialist assessment, therapy, risk assessment and risk management plans to those individuals who have a learning disability with complex presentations, including people with behaviours of concern, autism, and forensic difficulties, and to their support systems.
The job requires the post holder to lead on and utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the teams/service.
The service model is one of supporting people who present with behaviours of concern, working closely with specialist practitioners and other health professionals to support this complex group of individuals to remain in their community setting and, where an appropriate admission has occurred, to be discharged promptly and safely in line with national Transforming Care strategy.
They will have clinical oversight of team caseload, particularly those who are on the dynamic support database and presenting in crisis with a risk to admission into hospital and/or placement breakdown.
Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 C's to life? If so, we want to hear from you.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an evolving team and at the same time be part of well-established community learning disability teams working alongside Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nurses and Assistants of each discipline. The ISF model includes Principal Clinical Psychologist, Advanced Practitioner, Forensic Practitioner, Assistant Psychologist and Community LD Support Worker
We are looking for a confident individual who will be able to provide strategic and clinical leadership. In return the you will receive clinical and managerial supervision, have links to peer psychology meetings and appropriate training and CPD opportunities and an annual personal development review.
Our core operational hours are between 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday. Applicants must be able to be flexible with their working patterns to meet the needs of the service.
The ability, means and willingness to travel between multiple sites in the course of performing duties is essential. The role will involve regular travel across multiple sites in the Mersey Care Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. Therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post. Please indicate on your application how you meet this requirement.
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: Alastair Barrowcliff Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:
Jane Birchall-Smith -
Operational Manager/Principal Occupational Therapist
The post holder will provide strategic and clinical leadership for the delivery of the ISF function across the Halton & Warrington CLDT.
They will be required to contribute specialist psychological knowledge and leadership to support the teams in the provision of specialist assessment, therapy, risk assessment and risk management plans to those individuals who have a learning disability with complex presentations, including people with behaviours of concern, autism, and forensic difficulties, and to their support systems.
The job requires the post holder to lead on and utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the teams/service.
The service model is one of supporting people who present with behaviours of concern, working closely with specialist practitioners and other health professionals to support this complex group of individuals to remain in their community setting and, where an appropriate admission has occurred, to be discharged promptly and safely in line with national Transforming Care strategy.
They will have clinical oversight of team caseload, particularly those who are on the dynamic support database and presenting in crisis with a risk to admission into hospital and/or placement breakdown.
Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 C's to life? If so, we want to hear from you.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an evolving team and at the same time be part of well-established community learning disability teams working alongside Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nurses and Assistants of each discipline. The ISF model includes Principal Clinical Psychologist, Advanced Practitioner, Forensic Practitioner, Assistant Psychologist and Community LD Support Worker
We are looking for a confident individual who will be able to provide strategic and clinical leadership. In return the you will receive clinical and managerial supervision, have links to peer psychology meetings and appropriate training and CPD opportunities and an annual personal development review.
Our core operational hours are between 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday. Applicants must be able to be flexible with their working patterns to meet the needs of the service.
The ability, means and willingness to travel between multiple sites in the course of performing duties is essential. The role will involve regular travel across multiple sites in the Mersey Care Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust catchment area. Therefore, the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post. Please indicate on your application how you meet this requirement.
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: Alastair Barrowcliff Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: Telephone number:
Jane Birchall-Smith -
Operational Manager/Principal Occupational Therapist
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