Assistant Psychologist

2 weeks ago


Salisbury, United Kingdom Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Applications are invited for the post of Assistant Clinical Psychologist (Band 4) to work in the Spires Cleft Centre at Salisbury District Hospital. The post will be a 12 month fixed term contract, 0.4 WTE (2 days) in the first instance.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a specialised and dynamic multidisciplinary team, working with children and adults born with a cleft lip and palate and their families. The Spires Cleft Centre in Salisbury is part of a twin-site service with the Spires Cleft Centre in Oxford.

This post involves working within an experienced and supportive multi-disciplinary team of surgical, medical, speech therapy and nursing colleagues. Psychology is well established and highly valued by the cleft team and the post holder will offer support to the qualified psychologist in assessment and intervention to children, young people and adults experiencing psychological distress in relation to having a visible difference, difficulties with the functional consequences of their condition or difficulties coping with cleft-related treatment. The role includes conducting developmental and cognitive assessments and the scoring and recording of psychological measures. There is also scope for supervised low-intensity direct clinical work. Further, the Spires Cleft Centre is research active and there will be opportunities to gain experience in this area.

Applicants should hold an undergraduate degree in Psychology and ideally have some experience in working with children and/or in health settings, together with a strong academic record, ability and enthusiasm.
- Opportunity to work with specialist multidisciplinary team, working with children and families and with adults
- Flexible working
- Audit and Research active team

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.



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