Assistant Psychologist

1 week ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust.

We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.


Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

Job overview:

Band 4 Assistant Psychologist (1.0 wte) 18 months fixed term post in Northeast and Northwest Adult Community Mental Health Teams (North Norfolk and Norwich Care Group)


Applications must have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, a psychology degree with 2.1 or above and be eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Travel is part of the role and being a car driver is essential.

Our service caters for adults over the age of 26 with complex or enduring mental health needs. The post is based at Hellesdon Hospital Norwich.

The role will involve working within the community teams to deliver psychologically informed interventions, with a focus on short term, intensive work alongside some longer-term pieces of work.

It is envisaged that there will be opportunities for both individual and group work and that some work will be community based.


There would be opportunities for service-related research and audit, as well as the chance to undertaking some teaching and training for non-psychologist colleagues.

You would receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist.

As a department we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologist onto the clinical training.

Enthusiasm, warmth and experience of working with people are desired attributes.

Main duties of the job:

The role will involve delivering psychologically informed interventions under weekly supervision from a qualified clinical psychologist. There will be opportunities for both individual and group work, as well as service-related research and audit. You will have a chance to undertake some inhouse training and co-facilitate teaching for psychology and non-psychology colleagues.


In our service we highly value personal growth and professional development, and as a department we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported our previous assistant psychologists onto clinical training.

Previous experience of working with mental health presentations are desired attributes.

Working for our organisation:

**Benefits included with this role are: - **- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service

  • NHS discounts and many more.


Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff.

There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.


CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.


Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

  • BPS Accredited degree in Psychology

Experience:

Essential criteria:

  • Experience of quantitative research

Desirable criteria:

  • Experience of research in the NHS

Skills:

Essential criteria:

  • Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis

Desirable criteria:

  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues. Presentation skills.
  • EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES_Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a dive

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