Job summary
To support and enhance the professional psychological care and risk management of service users within the service and across all relevant agencies.
The post holder is expected to work in wide range of settings, including prisons and approved premises, but will be primarily based at the Resettle service in Liverpool. This role will require travel across the Cheshire region to visit users and therefore a full driving licence and access to a car is essential.
Main duties of the job
To support service users on release from custody to help successful reintegration back into society.
This will involve providing practical and emotional support and interventions in the community. There will also be close working with other professionals and qualified staff
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To undertake and/or contribute to psychological assessments of service users presentation, needs and risk, which may include a range of psychometric testes, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users, carers and others involved in their care or management.
2. To assist in the development of service users psychological formulations, and the development of a psychologically informed framework of understanding the service user, within the team.
3. To assist in the development of care plans, involving the treatment and/or management of a service users difficulties and risk behaviours.
4. To assist in the co-ordination and facilitation of therapeutic groups.
5. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To undertake and/or contribute to psychological assessments of service users presentation, needs and risk, which may include a range of psychometric testes, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users, carers and others involved in their care or management.
2. To assist in the development of service users psychological formulations, and the development of a psychologically informed framework of understanding the service user, within the team.
3. To assist in the development of care plans, involving the treatment and/or management of a service users difficulties and risk behaviours.
4. To assist in the co-ordination and facilitation of therapeutic groups.
5. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second-class honours degree in psychology (or psychology as main subject) or lower second with the addition of a higher degree in psychology.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, criminal justice and/or research design and analysis.
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Previous experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- personality-related difficulties and/or other complex needs.
- Knowledge of psychological models and theories re: personality disorder and mental health difficulties
- Awareness of issues relating to criminal justice systems, risk and mental settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary or multiagency setting Experience of research evaluation and audit of the application of psychological principles to complex needs
- Previous experience of working in a secure or forensic setting
SKILLS:
Essential
- Willing to travel.
- An ability to interact and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including report writing.
- High level ability to communicate.
- Sensitively and Succinctly to service users, carers and colleagues.
- An ability to work flexibly and to adapt to the therapeutic context
- Ability to work with an appropriate level of o Autonomy, within agreed boundaries. Empathic approach to working with people with complex needs
Desirable
- Skills in word processing and SPSS for Windows
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- An upper second-class honours degree in psychology (or psychology as main subject) or lower second with the addition of a higher degree in psychology.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Desirable
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, criminal justice and/or research design and analysis.
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Previous experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
- personality-related difficulties and/or other complex needs.
- Knowledge of psychological models and theories re: personality disorder and mental health difficulties
- Awareness of issues relating to criminal justice systems, risk and mental settings
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary or multiagency setting Experience of research evaluation and audit of the application of psychological principles to complex needs
- Previous experience of working in a secure or forensic setting
SKILLS:
Essential
- Willing to travel.
- An ability to interact and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including report writing.
- High level ability to communicate.
- Sensitively and Succinctly to service users, carers and colleagues.
- An ability to work flexibly and to adapt to the therapeutic context
- Ability to work with an appropriate level of o Autonomy, within agreed boundaries. Empathic approach to working with people with complex needs
Desirable
- Skills in word processing and SPSS for Windows
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
