Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 7 months (Current contract upto 31st March 2026)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 287-DSS-197-25
- Employer
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Aintree Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - Housing First
Band 7
Job overview
Clinical Psychologist - Housing First
We are looking for an enthusiastic newly qualified psychologist with a passion for working with people experiencing homelessness. We would welcome applications from soon to qualify and newly qualified psychologists.
You will be part of Liverpool University Hospitals Clinical Health Psychology Service, and based at Aintree Hospital, which is a long-established, supportive and welcoming team.
Liverpool is a great place to live, with fantastic energy and humour, a vibrant cultural life and easy access to the mountains and the sea. We can also offer beautiful architecture, lots of open space, good schools and a lower than average cost of living.
Main duties of the job
Direct and indirect psychological work to support delivery of Housing First across the Liverpool City Region.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Direct clinical intervention through the application of a range of psychological theories and models to analyse, understand and interpret complex situations and behaviours in order to formulate solutions and treatment which is tailored to individual’s needs. This requires the capacity to engage in intense concentration for prolonged periods of Although the post holder acts autonomously and is professionally accountable for their own practice, in common with all clinical psychologists, they will receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines.
- Being referred clinical cases of a complex nature, commonly involving co- morbid psychological and physical health problems.
- Effective communication of highly complex, contentious, delicate and often unwelcome information to patients, families and colleagues, within a highly emotive atmosphere, in a rapidly changing context. This involves working alone with patients who may be in a highly emotional or distressed state and could present with physically and verbally challenging behaviour (and assessing and managing patients with sensory and/or cognitive impairment). This requires a high level of interpersonal and communication skills. This may require confronting rigidly held unrealistic beliefs and expectations.
- Provide specialised advice and consultation on care, therapy, and psychological aspects of physical health to multidisciplinary teams, staff groups, patients and carers (i.e. to non-psychologist staff only). This may involve such things as motivating patients who lack insight into their difficulties. Responsibility for managing own time, planning of patient’s clinics and patient/carer groups. Organising the workload of doctoral clinical psychology trainees and psychology assistants.
- Use of neuropsychological/psychometric assessment tools requiring dexterity, speed and accuracy, where necessary. Interpretation of assessment results, requiring the use of analytical and reasoning skills. This will involve considering complex interrelated issues, such as possible effects of on-going treatment, physical health, mood and anxiety levels
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate degree in clinical psychology; eligible for membership of the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology and for BPS chartered status;
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Desirable criteria
- Previous training or experience of working within mindfulness and DBT models
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well developed and effective communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Abikity to identify and employ mechanisms of service governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to self-reflect, use clinical supervision appropriately and consider complex organisational and team dynamics
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
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
- Dr Vicky Molyneaux
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 3251
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