Part Time Practitioner Psychologist

Are you an experienced Practitioner Psychologist looking to take the next step in your career?

If so, join Victoria Gardens, Huyton, Liverpool is a specialist rehabilitation for Service Users with complex mental health needs and behaviours that challenge.

This is an opportunity to change lives for the better and help some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Reporting directly to the Consultant Psychologist, you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments.

You will also facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and be requested to design and deliver training.

As a Practitioner Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user's caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.

Your Practitioner Psychologist career at Victoria Gardens will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills throughout your time with us.

Your professional growth is valued and there are numerous career development opportunities on offer.

There is an extensive range of courses designed to help you grow and succeed in your career.

It's a career that brings pride and fulfilment, a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Psychologist you will be: Participating in the assessment of referrals, and to provide initial assessment service users referred to the service.

Undertaking high quality direct (assessment & therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory, and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions and making autonomous clinical decisions.

Working therapeutically with service users with complex presentations, undertake the assessments using a broad range of structured psychometric and semi structured clinical methods.

Formulating and implementing plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of patients' mental health needs based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence based best practice.

Being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical work and care.

Maintaining high standards of care in all areas of practice and in accordance the HCPC Code of Conduct, professional guidelines and Company Policies and Procedures.

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Have BPS recognised psychology degrees
• Be HCPC registered
• Have Chartered Psychologist status and appropriate post-graduate qualifications
• Be an approved supervisor within the guidelines of the BPS and relevant division
• Have understanding of evidence-based psychological practice
• Have experience of applying psychological knowledge to a clinical/neuro
• Be experienced working with clients with cognitive deficits
• Have previous experience of conducting research and project working

Location: Victoria Road, Huyton, Liverpool, L36 5SA

You will be working at Victoria Gardens, a specialist rehabilitation for Service Users with complex mental health needs and behaviours that challenge.

You will support the service to equip service users with the skills required for community living and increased independence.

The service is a recovery based service and incorporate elements of the Good Lives Model, supported by individualised interventions.

We have a full multidisciplinary team (MDT) with Nursing, Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker support.

Annual salary of £58,630 FTE

The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays)

• plus your birthday off
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.

Career development and training

Pension contribution to secure your future.

Life Assurance for added peace of mind.

Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment.

It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users.

All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.