We have opportunities for Assistant Psychologists and/or psychology graduates with experience in mental health to join our Crisi.....
We have opportunities for Assistant Psychologists and/or psychology graduates with experience in mental health to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHT) services across both the Mid-Mersey footprint (covering Halton, Knowsley, St Helens and Warrington) & Liverpool/ Sefton foot print.
The successful individuals will provide brief psychologically-informed interventions to service users under the CRHT services.
This role will include working across a 7 day service.
You will work in multidisciplinary teams within CRHT, to provide brief psychologically-informed interventions to service users and their carers.
With the relevant supervision support, you are expected to signpost and refer callers to the most appropriate services, and collaboratively develop safety management plans.
All areas of work will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Leads within the services. You will receive individual, group and peer-led supervision, and management support. Training and CPD opportunities will be provided.
The CRHT services are based in;
Mid CRHT - Harry Blackman House, Peasley cross hospital, St Helen
North CRHT - Broadoak Unit, Thomas Drive, Liverpool
As both teams work on a hub and spoke model access to a vehicle for travel is essential.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
To work with service users offering brief psychologically-informed interventions, signposting and completing relevant onward referrals.
To work with potentially distressing material in relation to service users’ personal histories and presentation, including risk to self and others.
To maintain clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures, particularly to ensure timely electronic patient record updating.
To assist Clinical Psychologists by undertaking psychological assessments of clients applying psychologically-based psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of interventions involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings as appropriate to the specialty work.
Having received instruction through supervision, to provide one-to-one consultations with service users, working autonomously within the limits of this instruction and within personal competence.
To use a degree of initiative and work independently with service users on planned work, and to exercise judgement based on good practice (NICE) and local operating procedures.
Preparing agreed assessment reports accurately in the accepted format.
In common with all professional psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties through engagement with CPD opportunities and self-guided learning.
To contribute to the training and support of other staff.
To assist in the design and implementation of service development and audit projects within the service as required.
To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.
To attend MDT meetings to be both appraised of clinical decision making and participate in clinical and service development discussions.
To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist qualified professional psychologists in evidence based practice in individual work and work with other professionals.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of high professional standards of practice, through active participation in training and development programmes, in consultation with the supervisor.
To undertake specific administrative duties as required.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jan 2024
