Principal Practitioner Psychologist

Job Purpose

The Transcend B8b Principal Practitioner Psychologist role is an exciting opportunity to provide clinical leadership to Transcend's expanding psychology team which includes a 1.0 B8a Clinical Psychologist, 2.0 B7/B8a Preceptorship Psychologists, and a Fixed-Term Assistant Psychologist. As clinical lead, you will join a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team of doctors, nursing staff, and psychologists who support patients from across the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB region who are experiencing gender dysphoria. The role involves leading the psychology team, delivering high quality psychological assessments and and therapy, and clinically supervising and operationally managing (where appropriate) team members. The role also involves being a key member of the MDT, offering psychological consultation and advice to medical and nursing colleagues, and supporting with service developments and initiatives in line with ICB and Trust requirements.

To work in a co-production model, with Transcend's Clinical and Operational leads, providing advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non-psychological professions

colleagues and to others involved in the service user’s care, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

To provide teaching and training within the service and to other groups as required.

To line manage psychological professions within the Transcend service, as appropriate.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr. Olga Horgan Job title: Assoc Dir for Psychological Professions Email address: olga.horgan@merseycare.nhs.uk

olga.horgan@merseycare.nhs.uk