Clinical Psychologist

Job summary Building Attachment & Bonds Service (BABS) are looking to recruit an experienced Specialist Clinical Psychologists The service sits within the Mersey Care Community Care Division but is hosted in the community in Family Hubs and Children Centres. The post will involve providing specialist therapeutic parent-infant mental health support to vulnerable families in the antenatal/postnatal period. The main focus of the BABS work is supporting parents and infants to build secure bonds and attachment relationships, and good parent infant mental health. It would be an advantage if the post holder has previous experience and/or an interest and passion for working in the specialist field of parent infant mental health; in particular, experience of working on an outreach, community-basis supporting vulnerable families in the community. The successful applicant must be confident and skilled to work independently, and in collaboration/partnership with other professionals. The successful applicant must be confident and comfortable working with safeguarding issues/concerns and the multitude of risks presented in the parent infant relationship. Most importantly, the successful applicant must have good interpersonal skills and qualities to build a good relationship and engage families with complex lives. Band 7s & Secondments will also be considered for this post. Main duties of the job The post will involve providing specialist therapeutic parent-infant mental health support to families in the antenatal/postnatal period via Parent Infant Mental Health Assessments, psychological formulation and various parent-infant interventions. Provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team 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-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care. Main duties of the job The successful applicant will work collaboratively with the following professionals and teams to support vulnerable parents and infants: Community and Specialist/Public Health Midwives Mersey Care teams within the Child Health Directorate (Health Visitors, Family Nurses, Breastfeeding Team) Children Centre and Early Years Staff Perinatal Mental Health Teams Children's Social Care staff (Social Workers, Early Help and Family Support Workers Staff) About us 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. Details Date posted 26 August 2026 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 8a Salary £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum Contract Fixed term Duration 12 months Working pattern Full-time Reference number 350-CC8105544-A Job locations Manor Farm Primary Care Resouce Centre Manor Farm Road Huyton L36 0UB United Kingdom Job description Job responsibilities To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. To evaluate, monitor progress and make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whos