Clinical Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time qualified Clinical Psychologist within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to join an expanding multidisciplinary team meeting the needs of Children and Young People (age up to 18) in Warrington. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:-

• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion
No Wrong Door' is a nationally recognised innovative programme working with complex adolescents who are within or on the edge of the caresystem. 'No Wrong Door' integrates residential care, foster care, speech and language support, mental health services and the police into a singlehub that is based in a residential home. North Yorkshire Borough Council devised the 'No Wrong Door' model and Warrington's partner agencies (council, health and police) are nowworking with them to launch the model in Warrington, as part of the Department of Education's flagship £84 million Strengthening FamiliesProtecting Children (SFPC) programme. The Life Coach is a non-traditional role who will need to "think differently" and undertake inventive and unscheduled approaches to therapy with young people., We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in the pioneering No Wrong Door Service as a Life Coach. The Life Coach will be acrucial member of the embedded Hub team, providing an approachable, flexible yet robust clinical role comfortable in listening to, enabling anddrawing out the potential of these often hard to reach, challenging young people using life coaching skills in informal settings.

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.