Are you an experienced Practitioner Psychologist looking to take the next step in your career?
Join Arbury Court in Warrington, a medium and low secure care and Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU) for women aged 18 years and over with Personality Disorder (PD) and mental illness. This role offers an opportunity to change lives for the better and help some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Your specialist psychology career at Arbury Court 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, with an extensive range of courses designed to help you grow and succeed in your career.
It is a career that brings pride and fulfilment, a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
Key ResponsibilitiesReporting 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.
As a Psychologist you will be:
- Participating in the assessment of referrals and providing initial assessment for 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, undertaking 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 in accordance with the HCPC Code of Conduct, professional guidelines and company policies and procedures.
- HCPC registered.
- Appropriate postgraduate qualifications.
- Understanding of evidence based psychological practice.
- Experience of applying psychological knowledge to a clinical/neuro context.
- Experience working with clients with cognitive deficits.
- Previous experience of conducting research and project work.
Townfield Lane, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire, WA2 8TR.
Arbury Court provides medium and low secure care and Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU) for women aged 18 years and over with Personality Disorder (PD) and mental illness. Each service within the site has a unique focus, ensuring that the needs of all women can be met. Patients can move through services as their needs change, to focus on the next step in their recovery journey.
About the ServiceThe service offers a personalised assessment and recovery based treatment pathway for women with complex needs. Using the rehabilitation and recovery treatment approach, we ensure that care is focused on the person.
Benefits- Annual base salary of £56,375.
- 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) and your birthday off, with the option to buy additional annual leave in our annual selection window.
- Instant access to earned wages, financial wellbeing support, 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion.
- Enhanced maternity package.
- Pension contribution.
All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users.