Assistant Psychologist-adult Mental Health

2 weeks ago


Dundee, United Kingdom Cygnet Health Care Full time

Assistant Psychologist Adult Mental Health.
Employer: Cygnet Healthcare
Location: Various Sites across Scotland - base will be at Wallace Hospital Dundee
Salary: £25,150 (per annum)
Hours: Full-time (40 hrs a week)
Cygnet Wallace House, Dundee
Cygnet Healthcare is seeking to recruit a full-time, experienced, and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join Cygnet Healthcare in Scotland. This role will be working 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday and will involve travel between sites across Scotland.
Cygnet Wallace Hospital is a 10-bed specialist high-dependency inpatient rehabilitation service for men and women with intellectual disability. Our fantastic facilities and multi-disciplinary treatment programme are designed to assist individuals with their return to community living.
Cygnet Wallace Hospital is a multi-disciplinary and psychologically informed service. The focus is on nurturing an enabling environment to deliver a clinical model, developed specifically to meet the needs of service users within an operational framework, providing a high-quality environment for promoting long-term recovery.
Job Role
The role of the Assistant Psychologist will be to support and enhance the psychological care of clients within health and social care services across Scotland by assisting the Regional Lead Psychologist in the delivery and evaluation of effective services that meet Cygnet's Healthcare objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and carer needs and expectations. To thereby help understand, prevent, and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder and improve mental health and well-being of clients. The role involves the administration, scoring, and report writing of psychometric assessments, standardised risk assessments, clinical formulation, and supervised individual and group interventions. Clinical supervision will be provided as an important part of personal and professional development, and additional training will be supported. We also offer an excellent Assistant Psychologist Development Programme to support our Assistant Psychologist's continuing professional development.
Candidate Profile:
You will be a strong team player, confident, motivated, and well organised. You will have a good understanding of the role of therapeutic boundaries, clinical risk, and the importance of evidence-based interventions. Patience and commitment are essential, but above all you'll be someone with a genuine desire to help others. We are looking for someone with a good degree in Psychology, further postgraduate training in relevant area of applied psychology and mental health is desirable. Previous experience of working within mental health services and settings is essential, and previous experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist and delivering 1:1 therapeutic work and/or group therapy sessions is desirable. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Please note this post may be closed early if a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Closing date: Friday 29 March 2024
Proposed Interview Date: Wednesday 10 April 2024
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