Hsemw Psychologist, Senior

HSE Mid-West Mental Health Service is committed to work practices in line with national HSE policies and procedures, regulatory requirements and national standards. It provides a predominantly community-based specialist mental health service with a catchment population of approximately 413,059 across Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary.

HSE Mid-West Mental Health Service is focused on a quality, recovery oriented, trauma informed and evidence-based approach to Mental Health service provision. Psychologists work within General Adult Community Mental Health Teams, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Teams and specialist multidisciplinary Teams including Psychiatry of Later Life, ADHD, Perinatal Mental Health, Liaison Psychiatry, Early Intervention Psychosis, Rehabilitation and Recovery Services, inpatient mental health services, CAMHS Crisis Hub Team and CAMHS ID service. The Mental Health psychology services in the Mid-West are managed by a Principal Psychology Manager who has overall responsibility for governance and strategic planning and development of the services as part of the mental health management teams in the Mid-West and in line with national mental health policy and international best practice.

The Mental Health Psychology Service has a robust local CPD structure with strong links with the Clinical psychology programmes based in University of Limerick and University of Galway and the Educational and Child Psychology programme based at Mary Immaculate College. Supervised placements to doctoral level students are provided and form an essential part of the partnership between the Mid-West Healthcare and the University sector.

Staff members have opportunities to:

· Participate in CPD and to avail of external training as part of agreed PPD plans, subject to budgetary constraints.

· Contribute to staff training and teach both in HSE, UL, NUIG & MIC.

· Participate in and supervise service-related research.

The Mental Health Psychology Service is underpinned by the principles of trauma informed and recovery-oriented care.

The successful candidate will deliver, develop and manage the delivery of a (specified)psychology service in line with service plans and objectives and within established professional standards, guidelines and policy. There are currently a number of vacancies available for Psychologist Senior within Child and Adolescent Mental Services (CAMHS) and Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS)

Informal Enquiries to:

Dr Nodlaig Moore

Principal Psychologist Manager, Mental Health Services

T: 061 461 571 - M: 087 4739578

Email: nodlaig.moore@hse.ie