Registered Practitioner Psychologist

The specialities of our team, and thus the therapies and other psychological interventions we offer, are diverse to ensure we can meet the wide breadth of needs of our service users. We encourage our staff to pursue their preferred clinical models where this fits with service need, and there will be opportunities for further training. Our aim is to support, develop and retain you through bespoke continuous professional development plans that will help you achieve your aspirations. We have a strong track record of providing and supporting a range of CPD activities and certificates. Equally important is our team's wellbeing and we work as hard to facilitate and promote our self-care and sense of being valued and cohesive., The core role involves providing specialist assessment and intervention for our service user group. We are integrated within multidisciplinary teams and provide consultation, reflective practice and support to those teams in order to provide the best possible care to our service users., We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

This is a permanent full time role. The post is open to either those about to complete training and looking for their first qualified post (Band 7 preceptorship), or those who are already qualified and looking for a change or a new challenge (Band 8a). We believe in supporting clinicians to grow into the psychologist they aspire to be. As part of the clear progression pathway towards Band 8a, our preceptors join monthly CPD group in slots addition to their regular individual supervision sessions to scaffold such growth and further your transferable skills.

Working for our organisation
We offer a range of attractive benefits including free onsite car secure parking; a designated desk space with two computer screens and no hot desking; fully stocked stationary cupboard; a fully equipped free onsite cardio and weight gym, swimming pool and fitness and yoga sessions.
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, Wales and the West 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.