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Location

Southport, Merseyside | United Kingdom

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Job description

The Sefton Homeless Psychology Service is looking to recruit an experienced, dedicated, compassionate and talented therapist.

This is an opportunity to be involved in the development and delivery of a new and innovative service. This post represents an important step in the growth of the service, and we are looking for an applicant that can demonstrate the necessary clinical skill, knowledge and experience, alongside personal values that are matched to the demands of the role and the ethos of the service.

Working in a team that seeks to understand and support people with multiple complex needs, you will be asked to use all of the skills you have developed in your career so far, through both direct and indirect ways of working.

You will be encouraged and supported by a small team of committed and friendly people who share your interest and enthusiasm for this work and recognise the challenges as well as the rewards it presents.

The Sefton Homeless Psychology service offers appointments to people living in Sefton who are experiencing homelessness. These appointments allow for a consideration of how any mental health issues may be impacting on their ability to live more independently, and in line with their personal values and aspirations. Information from these meetings is used to inform and support referrals to local services, and also to inform the care and support provided to people who live in supported hostel accommodation. Clinical and Assistant Psychologists from the team may also provide direct, time limited, psychological interventions.

The Sefton Homeless Psychology service also works in partnership with the Sefton Supported Housing Group (SSHG), which is a consortium of third sector organisations that provide a range of supported accommodation to people experiencing homelessness.

All of the providers have made a commitment to develop their services in a way that is trauma informed and which follows the principles of Psychologically Informed Environments. Your role in the Sefton Homeless Service will be important in helping the SSHG continue to develop their services in this way.

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.

Please see the attached job description for further information, and the other tasks and responsibilities linked to the post.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Feb 2024

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