Assistant Psychologist

Assistant Psychologist (Band 4), Full-time, one-year fixed term, with Ealing Crisis, Assessment, and Treatment Team (ECATT) and Single Point of Access (SPA).

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to work as an Assistant Psychology within the Single Point of Access (SPA), based at St Bernard’s Hospital. You will be joining a small but dynamic team of two Counselling Psychologists and a Trainee Clinical Psychologist. The Assistant Psychologist will work alongside and receive supervision from the two Counselling Psychologists who lead the team. You will be supported in thinking about how to achieve next steps in your career goals.

The role is intended to support patients in an acute crisis who are seen by SPA. You will be an integral part of the AMHS Psychology team in promoting safe, effective, and therapeutic care for our patients.

These newly created posts offer an exciting opportunity for Assistant Psychologists to act as key members of SPA. The role will entail psychologically-focussed duties, such as co-facilitating training for the SPA staff, ensuring formulation-driven and trauma-informed care is provided to those who call SPA, providing debriefs, and liaising with other teams to ensure that psychological plans are followed up for all patients.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

**Please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to this job advert.