Clinical/Health Psychologist
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
St Helens, WA9 3DA
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
30 September 2026
30 days left
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Clinical/Health Psychologist in our Clinical Health Psychology Department which provides specialist ps...
We are a full team of Clinical and Health Psychologists working as one team to deliver high quality psychological care across a range of physical health conditions across St Helens and Knowsley locality. We also pride ourselves on offering EMDR and receive EMDR Consultant supervision to enable best practice delivery of this service offer. Applicants trained in EMDR are welcomed. EMDR training can be sought as a CPD opportunity for the successful candidate.
Main duties of this post will include individual and group work with outpatients and inpatients, working with clients with a range of psychological difficulties across the lifespan with long term physical health conditions. As a qualified clinician you will take responsibilities over aspects of the service offer to enable development. You will also provide clinical supervision for Trainees where placements are available. Supervision of MDT staff, teaching and training and consultation are also key opportunities of the role. There are opportunities to attend the MDTs of some specialties and to present to support groups and be involved in psychoeducational events. You will be involved in audit, evaluation and publishing to promote clinical health psychology for the Trust and beyond.
UK HCPC Registration is required
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral Degree or equivalent qualification in Clinical, Counselling or Health Psychology
- Full registration with the Health Professions Council
- Eligible for Chartered Status with the British Psychological Society or equivalent body
Desirable
- Formal training in supervision
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience during or post qualification in a physical health environment
- Experience of research design, methodology, data analysis and interpretation
- Experience of working effectively in an MDT
- Management of patients expressing suicidal ideation or plans
Desirable
- Experience in psychological assessment and intervention within clinical health psychology
- Experience of teaching health professionals
- Experience of providing consultation to health professionals
- Experience of clinical supervision of assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, other healthcare professionals
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable skills in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a variety of complex problems
- Demonstrable skills in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with multiple co-morbidities
- Demonstrable skills in the process of analysis, understanding and decision making, as applied to the psychological assessment, planning of intervention, and treatment of complex psychological problems
- Knowledge of psychological theory and therapy as applied to patients presenting with medical and psychological problems
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge of national and local legislation, policies and guidelines (e.g. Data Protection Act, NSF guidelines, NICE guidelines etc.)
- Well-developed skills in effectively communicating complex and sensitive and contentious information, orally and in writing, to individual patients, groups of patients, carers and other professionals
- The ability to access and use relevant scientific databases and literature
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
Our Values
Essential
- We are Kind
- We are Open
- We are Inclusive
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
21 August 2026
Last checked
25 August 2026
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