Assistant Psychologist

We are looking for a new Assistant Psychologist to join our team working with male and female patients with forensic mental health needs across step down and specialist forensic community services.

The post will be centred on assisting the team with psychological assessments and interventions. This will involve observation and team discussion, support and co-facilitation of group interventions, carrying out formal assessments with the guidance of qualified staff and scoring and organising psychometric assessment tools.

The role also involves service development activities, including literature searches, audit, data management and assisting with primary research, including evaluation of developing therapies. You will be a part of various newly developing innovative services and interventions.

You will have the opportunity to acquire knowledge in the application of psychological interventions to the reduction of criminal behaviours and develop your understanding of a range of mental health difficulties and therapeutic models., To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users within the service, across all relevant sectors; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the supervising qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's 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. 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.