Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of clients with learning disabilities in a supportive setting.
Gain valuable experience working within a multidisciplinary team and enhancing your professional development.
Receive close supervision and mentorship from qualified Practitioner Psychologists, ensuring guidance as you develop your skills.
Engagement in a variety of psychological assessment methods, allowing for a broadening of assessment skills and knowledge.
Involvement in service development projects, contributing to the continuous improvement of psychological services.
Access to ongoing professional training and development programs, which supports personal growth and career progression.
Flexible working requests are considered, promoting a healthy work-life balance for employees.
Join Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as an Assistant Psychologist and embark on a rewarding journey in Leyland! We’re offering a full-time position (37.5 hours a week) on a one-year fixed contract, where you’ll play a vital role in supporting our Community Forensic Learning Disability Service. Your expertise will enhance the psychological care of our clients, under the mentorship of a qualified Practitioner Psychologist. This is a fantastic opportunity for those who are passionate about making a positive impact in mental health and dedicated to empowering individuals.
At Mersey Care, we pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering exceptional care and supporting our staff in every aspect of their role. You’ll engage in psychological assessments, collaborate on care plans, and contribute to service development projects—all while working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team. Whether you’re conducting interviews or developing outcome measures, your contributions will help shape the future of mental health services across the North West. Plus, we understand the importance of work-life balance and consider flexible working requests to ensure your well-being. If you’re ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you before the application closes on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025!
At Mersey Care, we pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering exceptional care and supporting our staff in every aspect of their role. You’ll engage in psychological assessments, collaborate on care plans, and contribute to service development projects—all while working within a supportive multi-disciplinary team. Whether you’re conducting interviews or developing outcome measures, your contributions will help shape the future of mental health services across the North West. Plus, we understand the importance of work-life balance and consider flexible working requests to ensure your well-being. If you’re ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you before the application closes on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025!
Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of clients with learning disabilities in a supportive setting.
Gain valuable experience working within a multidisciplinary team and enhancing your professional development.
Receive close supervision and mentorship from qualified Practitioner Psychologists, ensuring guidance as you develop your skills.
Engagement in a variety of psychological assessment methods, allowing for a broadening of assessment skills and knowledge.
Involvement in service development projects, contributing to the continuous improvement of psychological services.
Access to ongoing professional training and development programs, which supports personal growth and career progression.
Flexible working requests are considered, promoting a healthy work-life balance for employees.
We are looking to recruit a full time, 37.5 hours per week assistant psychologist on a one year fixed contract. This post will be to contribute and support the psychology provision within our Community Forensic Learning Disability Service in Lancashire & South Cumbria.
The Assistant Psychologist will support and enhance the psychological care of clients within the service, providing psychological assessment, formulation and interventions under the close supervision of a qualified Practitioner Psychologist. They will also work independently according to a plan agreed with the multi-disciplinary team and within the overall framework of the Secure Care Division and service specific policies and procedures.
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. Were 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.
All of the following clinical activities will be carried out under the supervision of a Qualified Practitioner Psychologist.
To undertake psychological assessments of clients - applying psychological tests, including neuropsychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
To review a variety of data sources, including medical records, case files, and depositions to inform standardised risk assessments for qualified members of the Secure Care Division.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To contribute to the development of outcome measures for clinical interventions, and to assist the design and implementation of service development projects within the Secure Care Division To communicate and liaise with staff and other disciplines with regard to assessing clients and reviewing their care in preparation for multidisciplinary review meetings. Under the supervision of a qualified psychologist or clinical nurse specialist, to prepare reports on clinical assessments with individuals, the results of psychometric assessments, case note reviews and research/audit projects.
To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, training and project work.
To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care, including contributing to the organisation of training seminars and conferences for others.
To receive regular individual and group clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines and the Directorate policy.
To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participant in appropriate CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and operational managers.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the Health Care Professions Council, Clinical Business Unit, and Trust policies and procedures.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Apr 2025
The Assistant Psychologist will support and enhance the psychological care of clients within the service, providing psychological assessment, formulation and interventions under the close supervision of a qualified Practitioner Psychologist. They will also work independently according to a plan agreed with the multi-disciplinary team and within the overall framework of the Secure Care Division and service specific policies and procedures.
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. Were 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.
All of the following clinical activities will be carried out under the supervision of a Qualified Practitioner Psychologist.
To undertake psychological assessments of clients - applying psychological tests, including neuropsychological, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
To review a variety of data sources, including medical records, case files, and depositions to inform standardised risk assessments for qualified members of the Secure Care Division.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To contribute to the development of outcome measures for clinical interventions, and to assist the design and implementation of service development projects within the Secure Care Division To communicate and liaise with staff and other disciplines with regard to assessing clients and reviewing their care in preparation for multidisciplinary review meetings. Under the supervision of a qualified psychologist or clinical nurse specialist, to prepare reports on clinical assessments with individuals, the results of psychometric assessments, case note reviews and research/audit projects.
To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, training and project work.
To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care, including contributing to the organisation of training seminars and conferences for others.
To receive regular individual and group clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines and the Directorate policy.
To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participant in appropriate CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and operational managers.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the Health Care Professions Council, Clinical Business Unit, and Trust policies and procedures.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Apr 2025
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