Assistant Psychologist

6 months ago

Slough, United Kingdom Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Do you want to work with young people and families and have transferable skills to work with complex mental health needs? We have an exciting opportunity to work for a Trust that is rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC.

The CAMHS Rapid Response Team are offering a new exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join the service in responding to and supporting young people and adolescents presenting in crisis in the community. The CAMHS Rapid Response Service is split into two functions. The assessing function delivers high-quality mental health assessments, and the Intensive Treatment Team delivers short-term intervention to young people experiencing mental health crisis. This role is for the Intensive Treatment Team function of the service.

This role will offer intensive short-term psychological interventions to young people and their families, while receiving supervision and support from senior Clinicians including a Highly Specialist Psychologist. This role includes delivering 1:1 individual psychological interventions as well as the facilitation of psychological skills groups, under the supervision of a clinical psychologist and other senior Clinicians. Applicants must have skills and experience in working with young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties and who present with challenging and risk behaviours and have ideally also worked with their parents/carers.

Delivering 1:1 sessions to provide support with distress tolerance and build emotional resilience. This could include providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature such as psycho-educational programmes.

Groups (such as DBT- informed) under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist and other senior Clinicians.

Offering intensive support (in the home & in community settings) to support families and young people, where there is a risk of placement breakdown and/or hospital re-admission.

Assisting in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users.

Attending and contributing to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.

To assist in the overall clinically related administration of the team such as conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audits, quality improvement and/or research projects.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

**Our values at Berkshire Healthcare**:
Caring for and about you is our top priority

Committed to providing good quality, safe services

Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

**Benefits of working for us include**:
Flexible working options to support work-life balance.

27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell

Generous NHS pension scheme

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme

Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality

Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.

Free parking across Trust sites

**The 4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role**:
Relevant CAMHS experience

**Assistant Psychologist**: an upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology

Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health will be beneficial.

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare

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