Assistant Psychologist

We are excited to be recruiting to a permanent Band 4 Assistant Psychology post, in the Lincolnshire Children & Young People’s Complex Needs Service.

We are looking to recruit a highly enthusiastic, motivated and organised Assistant Psychologist to join Lincolnshire CAMHS and become part of the Complex Needs Service supporting the Future4Me Service.

You will have experience of working with young people or adolescents, preferably in a therapeutic setting, with experience of vulnerable populations being advantageous.

Good communication and interpersonal skills will be essential as the post will involve offering training and psychological support to workers across the service, within the four localities and also to the young people themselves and the carers and professionals in regular contact with them.

You should also have a desire to develop themselves professionally in the field of psychology and will be supported in doing so throughout their time in the service.

You will be expected to support the team in their work across the county providing specialist support across the four localities that make up the Future4Me Service.

You will be expected to support the qualified staff in offering assessment, case formulation, consultation and training to all staff working with these often complex and vulnerable young people and their families. You will also hold a small caseload of client based activities, depending on confidence and experience.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
- Assist Qualified Psychologists and F4M staff in providing individual assessments, psychoeducation and therapeutic interventions to young people including Children in Care; children and young people who have mild to severe Learning Disabilities; children who are at risk of contact with, or who have contact with, the Youth Justice Service and children with physical health needs.
- To maintain an up-to-date diary with details of activities and locations in line with the Lone Working Policy enforced due to the nature of countywide working.
- To be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of Clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the Health and Care Professions Council; LPFT's policies and procedures, Lincolnshire CC's policies and procedures.
- To assist in the production of clinical / forensic psychology reports and, on occasion, present these within meetings, etc.
- Assist in specialist psychological assessment, utilising psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, structured observations including home and discreet school observations. Carry out semi-structured interviews as part of the history taking procedure with the client, family members and other agencies involved with the client.
- Analyse the results of these assessments, and background information to develop an appropriate formulation under the supervision of a child clinical psychologist.
- Contribute to written reports, feeding back results of assessments and communicating intervention plans accordingly.