Assistant Psychologist

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is a Band 4 full-time, 1 year fixed-term, Assistant Psychologist post in Camden EIS. This role will be focused on providing carer support & education through individual work with carers and supporting the existing monthly group. The post holder will also carry out clinical administration, data collection and analysis, audit and service development projects.

The post-holder will be a core member of the service, supervised and line-managed by a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist.

This is an excellent opportunity for an applicant who is enthusiastic about the Early Intervention approach and who wishes to gain knowledge and experience of this exciting and effective means of delivering mental health care. The successful applicant will have outstanding interpersonal skills and will be interested in developing their assessment, formulation, therapeutic and data analytic skills. They will be motivated, resilient, and keen to deliver a supportive service.

Please note this vacancy may close early.

You would work directly with individuals, groups and families from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, providing tailored assessment, formulation, consultation and low-intensity interventions for carers of people with psychosis, bipolar and co-occurring psychological difficulties such as trauma. You would work under close supervision of a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. You would work closely with MDT colleagues and other agencies to provide psychologically informed care, through joint working, training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice. You would also have opportunities to undertake service development, service evaluation, quality improvement (QI) and research. You would be expected to work within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service.

Previous experience of working with people with psychosis and their carers is desirable. An enthusiasm for creative working and interest in innovation and co-production with this group is essential. The post requires entitlement to Graduate Membership with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

You would be joining a vibrant community of psychological therapists in community psychosis services, drawing on a range of approaches including CBTp, Family Interventions and systemic therapies, third wave therapies, and other approaches. We are committed to providing regular and high quality supervision as well as excellent opportunities for continued professional development.

We offer an extensive CPD programme, including in-house psychological workshops in systemic, psychodynamic, CBT and MI approaches. We have close links with local training organisations and have trainees on placement working under supervision.

Our Community Mental Health Transformation Programme means that it is an exciting time for psychology to play a key role in helping shape services to be more accessible, trauma-informed and recovery focused. We value diversity in our team and are committed to make our workforce more representative of the communities we serve.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

To provide a 1:1 carer focused intervention to friends and family members of service-users under the Camden Early Intervention Team.

To support the monthly Friends & Family group alongside other members of the team, and to provide administrative support for the running of the group.

Contributing to the maintenance of databases, data reporting and analysis.

Research, audit and service evaluation.



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