Registered Practitioner Psychologist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and treatments for service users within a Medium Secure Unit. The post holder will apply advanced clinical skills, work autonomously within professional guidelines, and contribute to service governance. Key responsibilities include delivering trauma-informed interventions, risk management, supervision of trainees, and engaging in research and service development activities. The role requires expertise in complex psychological methods and effective communication with diverse groups.
Key responsibilities
- Provide specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and treatments for service users.
- Apply and maintain highly specialised psychological services within the clinical service.
- Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research.
- Supervise doctoral level trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists.
- Deliver trauma-informed and offence-related interventions, recovery, risk, and safety planning.
- Contribute to discharge planning, reflective practice, and service delivery.
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training (or equivalent) in a professional area of psychology conferring HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Knowledge of IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed and effective communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Reasonable adjustments will be made for those with sensory impairment
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of service governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to self-reflect, use clinical supervision appropriately and consider complex organisational and team dynamics
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc)
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one specialised psychological therapy
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £64,750 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Practitioner Psychologist
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the clinical service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structuredinterviews with service users , family members and others involved in the patient's care.
To apply and maintain clinical skills acquired through further specialist training and experience to monitor and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialised psychological services within the designated clinical service, to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Psychological Services and delegated management responsibilities where appropriate.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the clinical area. To supervise doctoral level trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists as required
Main duties of the job
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