Principal Clinical Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Adult Eating Disorders Service in St Helens & Knowsley as a Band 8b Principal Clinical Psychologist. The service has been undergoing transformation and expansion and this is an exciting time to join our supportive and friendly team.

The multidisciplinary team provides outpatient assessment and intervention to adults over the age of 18 with eating disorders. We offer a range of evidence based psychological therapies including CBT, MANTRA and SSCM. Our team consists of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Psychologists, CBT Therapist, OT, Dietitian, Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners, Senior Nurse Practitioner and Assistant Psychologists. We also work closely with other services and professionals including primary care, GPs, inpatient services (Specialist Eating Disorder Units and medical wards) and other secondary care mental health teams., We are looking for a qualified Clinical Psychologist with the relevant skills, values and experience to provide a high quality psychological service to individuals with eating disorders.

The post holder will:

Demonstrate a strong interest and commitment to working with people with complex psychological presentations. Experience of working with people with eating disorders would be desirable.

Work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and other members of the leadership team and contribute to clinical leadership by providing clinical, professional and management supervision, consultation, training and advice.

Support the clinical lead in the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.

Utilize research skills for audit, evaluation and service development.

We are seeking to appoint a Psychologist with excellent communication skills, values, and relevant skills and experience in the speciality, to contribute to providing leadership to the team and supporting service development.

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.