Assistant Psychologist

Are you looking for an assistant psychology post that will provide you with new opportunities and experience?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to permanent full-time experienced Assistant Psychologists to support the partnership and collaboration of primary and secondary mental health care across Coventry and Warwickshire. There will be the opportunity to work within a designated PCN (Primary Care Network) across our Coventry and Rugby localities.

We recognise that placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices and promoting early assessment, treatment and interventions in a recovery focused way will help people with mental health problems achieve the best possible outcomes.

Our Assistant Psychologists will provide psychological interventions to a wide range of adults presenting within primary care with mental health needs. You will be part of a mental health approach which will be multiagency, ensuring the wider determinants of mental health are considered as part of the service users’ formulation. You will offer psychological assessment, formulation, and brief therapeutic intervention, using evidence-based programmes that may be individual or group based under the supervision of an experienced qualified clinical psychologist.

You will receive regular supervision from an experienced clinical psychologist and will be line managed by an experienced senior healthcare professional.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

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The NHS Long term Plan Community mental health transformation is a national movement supported by NHS England, with a huge amount of investment at a local level to improve the delivery of mental health care in local communities. The transformation project across Coventry and Warwickshire brings together health, social care, voluntary and community sector organisations and our strategy is coproduced between experts by experience and experts by training.

The post holder will be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, will be someone who is passionate about improving mental health care is highly organised, with ability to work with a degree of autonomy.