Mhst Assistant Psychologist

3 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking to recruit a full time assistant psychologists within the Mental Health Support Team in North East Essex. These posts will be based in Colchester and Tendring.

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a new service designed to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing in education settings. They are made up of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners.

**MHSTs aims to**:
support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems through evidence-based interventions

support schools in developing their whole school approach to mental health

provide timely advice to school staff and to liaise with other services in order to help children and young people get the right help and stay in education.

This advert is likely to attract a high number of applicants and will close early once a maximum number of applicants has been reached.

1. To assist, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist or other appropriately qualified team member, in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.

2. To undertake, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist or other appropriately qualified team member, protocol-based psychological assessments of clients, including the use of self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.

3. To assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the direct supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist or other appropriately qualified team member.

4. To manage an ongoing programme of audit of MHST outcomes involving measures completed by children, young people and families.

5. To analyse this data and contribute to the production of reports of outcomes for the team and for commissioners.

7. To attend and contribute to appropriate internal and external meetings.

8. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload.

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.



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