Assistant Psychologist

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated psychology graduate for the role of Assistant Psychologist within the Greenwich NHS Talking Therapies service.

The successful applicant willsupport and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the 16-17 year old service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Theassistantpsychologist will take part in the promotion of the service within the borough of Greenwich, assist in running community workshops and will maintain a strong commitment to service user involvement.

The post holder will alsoassist in clinically related administration.Research skills will be of benefit, for the purpose of clinical audit, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the 16-17 service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conducts of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care

**Clinical**:
1. To undertake protocol based psychological assessments

2. To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the
psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems,
under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in
the community.

3. To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups or
clinical projects.

4. To work with other staff to assess or support service users in the
community as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.

5. To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of
understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the 16-17 year old IAPT service, across all settings where care takes place.

**IT Responsibilities (clinical)**:
1. To create graphs or charts to summarise data on individual
interventions or treatment programmes.

2. To assist in producing visual material or user friendly information for
interventions with clients.

**Teaching, Training and Supervision**:
1. In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical
supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

2. To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS
over and above that provided within the principle service area where
the post holder is employed.

3. To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.

4. To contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological
care.

**Management, Recruitment and Service Development**:
1. To assist in the design and implementation of service development
projects within the service as required.

2. To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and
discussed.

3. It will be a requirement of this role to participate in job planning which forms a key part of the working prac