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Are you a creative, compassionate, and dedicated psychologist looking to develop your psychological therapy skills within a friendly and supportive team?  If so please join our team.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Applied Psychologist (clinical or counselling) to join St Helens Step 4 Psychology Service.  Depending on experience the post could be offered at AFC band 7 or 8a.  The team sits within the multidisciplinary Recovery team and comprises Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, EMDR therapists, specialist nurse practitioners and assistant psychologists. We also regularly offer placements to Trainee Clinical Psychologists.  

This is predominantly a clinical role and an excellent opportunity to develop psychological therapy skills.  We are a secondary care service so clients presentations are complex, often requiring bespoke, longer term and/or integrative approaches.  Further training to enhance clinical skills is supported and encouraged, over the past two years team members have trained in the following: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT), schema-focused therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT), and Structured Psychological Support (SPS). 

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The main duties of the role will be providing 1:1 psychological assessment, formulation and intervention to clients referred into the service. Our service users have complex presentations so often liaison with other professionals, teams, or agencies involved in the clients care is needed.  The successful candidate would be expected to contribute to a psychologically based framework for understanding their clients across these settings. The psychological therapies service sits in the multidisciplinary St Helens Recovery team so MDT working is a key requirement of this role.  Depending on experience, supervision of Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists or other members of the psychological therapies team may also form part of the role.  We also support research and service evaluation and are currently linked in with research trials looking at MBT and SPS.  

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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.