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Assistant Psychologist

4 months ago


Ilford, Greater London, United Kingdom Barnardos Full time

Are you a compassionate, authentic, inspiring practitioner who wants to make a difference? Do you want to work in a multiagency environment where you can use your clinical skills and your creativity to achieve the best for children, young people and their families?

Barnardo's West Yorkshire Keyworker Service in partnership with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCT) and the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) are developing and leading a 12-month Bradford Psychology Service Pilot which will provide high quality specialist clinical psychology service across Bradford and Craven. To implement and develop this Pilot we would like your expertise to shape our Service.

We are looking for a professionally registered (British Psychological Society), highly motivated and reflective Assistant Psychologist who has both passion for and experience of working with children, young people, parents/carers and their families and the system around them. Desirable experience also includes experience of inpatient contexts. You will work in the psychological service as Assistant Psychologist for autistic children and young people and those with a learning disability and complex needs on the Dynamic Support Register and the Complex Support Needs Panel in Bradford.

If you enjoy being direct work with children and young people, are a forward and creative thinker who wants to make a real and meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people and support their families, we would be delighted to hear from you. You will work within professional guidelines. You will work within a trauma-informed service, ensuring that psychological perspectives are central to everyone's thinking.

This post would be ideal for someone who has already worked as an Assistant Psychologist in children's services with experience in autism, learning disabilities and complex needs and is looking for an opportunity to extend and apply their skills in a post that will make a difference.

You will be clinically supervised by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist within the Service, identifying CPD needs across the Pilot. Through consultancy, clinical supervision, reflective practice, team formulation, training and clinical case management, you will support the team to create an innovative and effective service that adheres to best practice guidelines and the delivery of high-quality care.

You will support and provide assessment, formulation and care planning and support the system to enable the needs of children young people are effectively met. It is felt the added benefit to this process will be the independence third sector brings. You will share system wide learning so inform system leadership and strategy from the pilot.

The caseload will be led by the Bradford Complex Support Needs Panel and Dynamic Support Register, based on children and young people who are at high risk of a hospital admission due to mental health crisis, or those who are currently detained in a hospital and coordination within a discharge planning context.

The team will work closely with service users, clinicians, local communities and the ICB, as well as providers, Health and Local Authority Commissioners and voluntary Sector partners. They will also be responsible for providing assurance on delivery to the panel, working closely and ensuring linkages with the Transforming Care Programme in the partnership.

As Assistant Psychologist, you will:

Provide psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to both children and young people and their families/carers. Participate in the evaluation of children and young people's care and treatment within the Service. Assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work. Have excellent communication skills; working as an Assistant Psychologist Raise the profile of autism and learning disability related commitments Have clear parameters and expectations, but there will be opportunities to positively shape the pilot and build and develop important relationships with stakeholders and partners.

Barnardo's currently provide the West Yorkshire Keyworker Service and are effectively placed to lead this Pilot and develop and deliver this programme of work.

Meeting training and clinical supervision needs:
Specialist Clinical supervision will be provided by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, as well as CPD opportunities.

Other identified training needs will be identified as the team develops the work and in their roles.

Could this be the role for you? If so, please read the job description and we will look forward to reading your application.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

A secondment will be considered - If you would like to consider this role as a secondment, please ensure you have prior agreement from your current line manager. Please state in your application that you would like to apply for the role as a secondment.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements. 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options Service related sick pay from day 1 Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension Cycle2work scheme Interest free season ticket loans Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal 20% discount at Barnardo's stores Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

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