We are looking for a Senior 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.
This post is for 12 months maternity cover, 22.5 hours per week.
Responsibilities
- Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of staff based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
- Implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions, and in synthesis, adjust and refine psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models while maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- Provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to staff members’ treatment.
- Provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical team(s) involved with the care of staff members.
- Provide expert consultation about the psychological care of staff members to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.
About the Trust
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we provide general and emergency hospital care alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
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 elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. 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 bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact Jane Hutton, Trust Lead for Psychology. Email: jane.hutton@liverpoolft.nhs.uk. Telephone: 07971 176603.
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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.
This post is for 12 months maternity cover, 22.5 hours per week.
Responsibilities
- Provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of staff based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
- Implement a range of highly specialist psychological interventions, and in synthesis, adjust and refine psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models while maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- Provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to staff members’ treatment.
- Provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the clinical team(s) involved with the care of staff members.
- Provide expert consultation about the psychological care of staff members to relevant staff and agencies outside the Trust.
About the Trust
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we provide general and emergency hospital care alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
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 elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. 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 bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact Jane Hutton, Trust Lead for Psychology. Email: jane.hutton@liverpoolft.nhs.uk. Telephone: 07971 176603.
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