Practitioner Psychologist

We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist to provide a high quality and highly specialised psychology service for Trust staff. The successful candidate will provide appropriate support for Trust staff that is complementary to the resources offered regionally and nationally. You will be a highly specialist resource on psychological care to the wider service and will coordinate and contribute to providing education, training and supervision activities to enhance psychological support and treatment across the service.

• Satisfactory completion of postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• Eligible for membership of the BPS Division of Clinical Psychology and for BPS chartered status
• Eligible for registration with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable criteria
• Pre- or post-qualification experience or training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Specialist training or demonstrable expertise in one or more areas of research methodology, Experience of applying psychological approaches to NHS staff.
• Experience of supporting NHS staff.
• Working with a wide variety of client groups, across the adult life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working in a staff support setting.
• Experience of teaching or training.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of research in NHS settings, Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of clinical health psychology, consistent with doctoral level professional training including supervised experience.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological therapies
• Ability to plan, organise and provide teaching and training on relevant psychological topics, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and DoH policy and implementation guidelines, and of the implications of such documentation for clinical practice and professional management in relation to health care
• Evidence of continuing professional development consistent with expected standards of the British Psychological Society and Divisions of Clinical Psychology or other relevant professional body
• Familiarity with the ethical and professional standards expected of Clinical Psychologists as laid down in the collated BPS 'Code of Conduct, Ethical Principles and Guidelines' or other relevant professional guidelines
• Awareness and thorough understanding of the political, social and economic policy framework within which health and mental health services are delivered and an ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the professions of clinical, health and counselling psychology within this context, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  To provide individual and group psychological therapy for staff at LUHFT, NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities.
We are one of the largest employers in region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West. We operate from five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provide specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday. The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.