Assistant Psychologist

5 months ago

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust Full time

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us

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JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
To support inclusivity some questions for the interview will be available prior to the interview. Please make it known if you feel there are additional ways in which we can support you to demonstrate your best in the process.

Interviews will be over Microsoft teams to prevent travel burden, however if this does not suit you face to face can be arranged.

**Main duties of the job**:
Confidence in running therapeutic groups as well as an understanding of the psychological processes involved are an essential requirement for the potential post holder. Knowledge and experience of psychological models of therapy and recovery would also be essential to the successful applicant. We have a strong DBT informed philosophy on the wards so knowledge of this paradigm would be advantageous. Knowledge and understanding of trauma informed approaches would also be positive.

**Working for our organisation**:
The team consists of Nurses, Support Workers, Assistant Practitioners Occupational Therapists, Peer Support Workers, Psychology and Medics who work towards the shared goal of patient focused recovery. There are processes to review our work, to develop areas of good practice and support learning and development of staff.

The Therapy team have a strong ethos of supporting each other and continually developing our knowledge and practice.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Main responsibilities to include:

- Psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate under close supervision of a clinical psychologist
- Co-facilitating psychologically informed groups
- Contributing to the practice of psychologically informed interventions within the team via teaching and developing resources
- drawing on DBT framework to support self harm reduction
- Evaluating outcomes and writing reports

You will have:

- A BPS Accredited degree in Psychology
- Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties.

**Person specification**:
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Experience of quantitative research.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of research in the NHS.

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- BPS Accredited degree in Psychology

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Knowledge of mental health
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

**Desirable criteria**:

- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES_
- Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. _
- Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification). _
- DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB) _
- Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so._
- The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale._

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