Assistant Psychologist

2 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you looking for an assistant psychologist role where you work alongside a team comprising both multi-professional and peer recovery expertise to offer clarity and hope to services users often described as “complex”? Do you want to work in a service which prioritises psychologically informed and innovative approaches, with an emphasis on collaboration and coproduction?

The opportunity is now available for a full time and permanent assistant psychologist to join the Psychological Practitioners working as part of CREST (Community Rehabilitation Enhanced Support Team). CREST is a regional community mental health service, hosted by LYPFT on behalf of the West Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS). Established in 2021, the team comprises a full multi-professional and peer recovery workforce who deliver new ways of working for people placed out of area (OOA) to effectively be repatriated from inpatient settings and forge new lives nearer to home. The aim is to empower people to define, build and live meaningful, independent, and satisfying lives outside of locked settings, often termed “complex rehabilitation”. Recurring feedback from evaluation with service users/families, providers and other stakeholders is that people working with the programme “feel included”, “clear on the plan” and appreciative of “commitment”, “transparency” and “coproduction”.

Co-working with people who hold lived experience is embedded in our service. As an assistant psychologist with existing expertise drawn from previous assistant psychologist practice or work in psychological settings, you would be working alongside a growing team of psychological practitioners, a full MDT and peer recovery workforce. You will support and enhance the clinical work and research activities of CREST. You will be supervised in contributing to direct and indirect clinical interventions, team formulations, and training to help develop a team-based and psychologically informed understanding of the service users’ needs. You would be supported by the psychologists within the team, consultant psychologists and clinical lead as well as the wider team to empower individuals and teams to increase knowledge, skills, and professional confidence in improving service user outcomes. You would expand your knowledge about Trust and region-wide ICS clinical and systemic practices. As it is a new and developing service, you would have the opportunity to take a role in aspects of service development and evaluation, supporting the team delivered effective approaches utilising both best practice and cutting-edge innovation to deliver the highest quality care.

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

CREST is looking for a highly motivated Band 5 Assistant Psychologist. The post holder will be expected to carry out direct psychological work under the supervision of a registered psychologist. The post holder will be responsible for maintaining associated records of clinical and research activity. There will be opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of psychological interventions; joint working with members of the MDT to scaffold and model low level psychological interventions.

The post holder will receive regular clinical supervision and management supervision in line with professional and Trust guidance. The post holder will support psychologically informed formulations and assessments alongside the MDT. There may be opportunities to support the conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of evaluation and /or research projects, teaching and project work. All work will be carried out within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

We are passionate about supporting teams and services to be psychologically-informed, maximising therapeutic potential and proportionate risk management. The successful applicant will have a keen interest of working within an MDT environment and adapting interventions for people with complex, diverse needs, and who may pose a risk of harm to themselves or others. They will share the team’s service-user-c



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