Assistant Psychologist

Overview:
Are you an Assistant Psychologist (or have a qualification eligible for graduate basis for chartership of the British Psychological Society)? Do you want to make a difference? Do you want to work in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and your creativity to achieve the best for people?

An opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologists to be part of our multidisciplinary team in East Lancashire delivering comprehensive assessment and recovery focussed interventions to people who are directly or indirectly affected by drug and alcohol use.

**Responsibilities**:
Under the supervision of a senior HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist, the post holder work to ensure that people who use our services receive high quality care that adheres to best practice guidelines.

Our model emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety and helps people to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment in their lives and in their communities. The post holder will work under the supervision of the Clinical Psychologist to ensure that psychological perspectives are central to everyone’s thinking. They will support the empowerment of teams and individuals to increase knowledge, skills, and professional confidence around the needs of the people who access our services. Through consultancy, reflective practice, team formulation, training and clinical case management, the post holder will help the wider team create an innovative and effective trauma-informed service.

**Equality Diversity and Inclusion**

At Change Grow Live, equality, diversity, and inclusion mean building a workforce representative of the communities we serve.

When you join us, you will become part of a charity that is working to become a sector leader for equality, diversity, and inclusion practice. You will make a genuine contribution to the quality of the services we provide.

We are proud to be one of Stonewall’s Top 100 most inclusive employers in Britain - we reached position 88 in the 2019 Stonewall equality list. We are also fully committed to supporting disabled people to work with us. We are a Disability Confident Committed workplace and are working towards becoming a Disability Confident Employer.