Opportunity to apply highly specialized psychological skills in a meaningful way, directly impacting the mental health of parents and infants.
Role involves supervision and support of fellow practitioners, fostering a collaborative and professional development environment.
Autonomous work within professional guidelines allows for personal growth and decision-making in clinical practice.
Involvement in auditing, policy development, and research provides a platform to influence and enhance mental health services on a broader scale.
Part of a large and reputable trust, offering comprehensive physical and mental health services across a wide region, allowing for diverse experience.
Commitment to 'perfect care' aligns with high standards of service delivery, promoting a culture of safety, effectiveness, and equity.
Flexible working arrangements available, offering a better work-life balance for employees.
Join Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in Huyton With Roby and make a real difference to the lives of parents and their infants in the community. This rewarding role invites you to use your specialist skills and training to deliver exceptional psychological services, focusing on parent-infant mental health. You’ll supervise a dedicated team, guiding them in providing compassionate psychological care while enjoying the autonomy to implement meaningful changes that enhance service delivery.
At Mersey Care, we pride ourselves on being one of the largest trusts serving the North West, committed to delivering 'perfect care' that is safe and effective. We believe in empowering our workforce, ensuring that you are supported in your role and work collaboratively with families and service users to shape the future of care. With a culture that values flexibility and innovation, this position is an excellent opportunity for those looking to balance meaningful work with a fulfilling personal life. If you're passionate about making a difference, contact Jane Leyden at jane.leyden@merseycare.nhs.uk or call 01513518801 to find out more.
Opportunity to apply highly specialized psychological skills in a meaningful way, directly impacting the mental health of parents and infants.
Role involves supervision and support of fellow practitioners, fostering a collaborative and professional development environment.
Autonomous work within professional guidelines allows for personal growth and decision-making in clinical practice.
Involvement in auditing, policy development, and research provides a platform to influence and enhance mental health services on a broader scale.
Part of a large and reputable trust, offering comprehensive physical and mental health services across a wide region, allowing for diverse experience.
Commitment to 'perfect care' aligns with high standards of service delivery, promoting a culture of safety, effectiveness, and equity.
Flexible working arrangements available, offering a better work-life balance for employees.
The post holder will apply and maintain those skills acquired through further specialist training and experience to monitor and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialised psychological services and provide a parent-infant mental health service to parents and infants,
and MDT Professionals in the community of ST Helens.
The post holder will supervise and support the highly specialised parent-infant assessment and therapy provided by other BABS and other members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post holder will exercise delegated management responsibilities where appropriate and work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the BABS Service.
The post holder will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research and propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the BABS Service.
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 Leyden Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: Telephone number:
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