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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time qualified Clinical Psychologist within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to join an expanding multidisciplinary team meeting the needs of Children and Young People (age up to 18) in Warrington.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:-

 Promote safe practices

- Value the aims of service users
- Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
- Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
- Value social inclusion

No Wrong Door’ is a nationally recognised innovative programme working with complex adolescents who are within or on the edge of the care

system. ‘No Wrong Door’ integrates residential care, foster care, speech and language support, mental health services and the police into a single

hub that is based in a residential home.

North Yorkshire Borough Council devised the ‘No Wrong Door’ model and Warrington’s partner agencies (council, health and police) are now

working with them to launch the model in Warrington, as part of the Department of Education’s flagship £84 million Strengthening Families

Protecting Children (SFPC) programme.

The Life Coach is a non-traditional role who will need to “think differently” and undertake inventive and unscheduled approaches to therapy with

young people.

The Life Coach will work closely in planned collaboration with the whole No Wrong Door staff team.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to work in the pioneering No Wrong Door Service as a Life Coach. The Life Coach will be a

crucial member of the embedded Hub team, providing an approachable, flexible yet robust clinical role comfortable in listening to, enabling and

drawing out the potential of these often hard to reach, challenging young people using life coaching skills in informal settings.

*A development opportunity will be considered for a competent, committed and experienced clinical psychologist (band 7 with the plan to

progress to band 8a once fully competent in the role).

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children's and adults barred list. Successful candidates will

either have a valid DBS check with the Trust or will be required to pay for the cost of the DBS Disclosure which is £47.50 for an enhanced

disclosure, the cost of which will be deducted from first salary.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.