Senior Clinical PsychologistinEcclesinEcclesPUBLISHED MON 17 FEB 2025

This is a rare opportunity to join the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (GMSST) as part of a growing and developing psychology specialism. This newly created role for an 8a clinical psychologist offers the chance for career development in a complex, challenging and rewarding area of work. We are a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and social workers working across Greater Manchester with service users who have autism and/or a learning disability and present with a broad range of risks and challenges. We are expanding our psychological offer to include time-limited 1:1 therapy whilst continuing to provide complex risk assessment, formulation, systemic intervention and advice & consultation in multi-agency settings. The role will give the successful candidate the chance to develop specialist skills, knowledge, experience and expertise with a unique overview of learning disability, mental health, criminal justice and inpatient settings. We welcome applications from candidates with a commitment to compassionate, person-centred practice that upholds their legal and ethical rights.

This post is advertised as a band 8a; however, we will accept applications from newly qualified Clinical Psychologists who, if successful, would be appointed on a band 7 preceptorship with a programme of development to gain the competencies required to reach the level required for the 8a post.

To provide a qualified clinical psychology service according to a plan agreed with the multi-disciplinary team and within the overall framework of GMSST’s policies and procedures. To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service user’s psychological care to psychologist and non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. GMSST is a highly specialist service providing assessment and intervention to service users with learning disabilities and/or autism who have a history of complex problems and high-risk presentations, including behaviours of concern, offending and mental health difficulties.

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 Ewan Perry Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist Email address: