Assistant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

3 weeks ago

Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Join Our Team at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Assistant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our Specialist Palliative Care Services team. As an Assistant Psychologist, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality psychological assessments and interventions to patients and relatives accessing our services.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive team environment, where you will have the chance to develop your skills and knowledge in a variety of areas, including service development, audits, and training development and evaluation. You will receive high-quality supervision from an experienced Psychologist within the team and have opportunities for Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

As part of this post, you will spend one day per week working on a regional project called the Improving Mental Wellbeing in Cancer Project, which has been commissioned by Macmillan. You will work closely with colleagues in the Northern Cancer Alliance to support the development of this work in the South Tyneside and Sunderland locality.

Main Responsibilities

As an Assistant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, your main responsibilities will include:

  • Providing support and coordination to clinical, training, and research functions within the team
  • Undertaking related tasks to enhance assessment, intervention, and evaluation within the team or care group
  • Working independently according to a plan agreed and reviewed through regular supervision by a qualified applied HCPC registered Psychologist
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

  • Experience of working with people with a diagnosis of a mental health condition
  • Experience of work in a care provision (either in a paid or voluntary capacity)
  • Experience in delivery psychological therapies
  • Experience of working in physical health settings
  • Experience of psychometric assessments
  • Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist
  • Experience of undertaking research/audit/data collection
Skills and Qualifications

You will need to have:

  • Good communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive
  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues
  • An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a health context
  • Competent in the use of Microsoft Office and statistical software packages
  • Ability to undertake literature searches and evaluate research evidence
  • High standard of report writing
  • Research, Service evaluation, and audit skills
Personal Qualities

You will need to possess:

  • Ability to work within a multi-professional team
  • Ability to set objectives and priorities
  • Ability to work under pressure in a complex and changing environment
  • Ability to work independently and plan and manage workload
  • Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
  • Ability to work professionally and ethically
  • Ability to work independently while recognising own limits
  • Ability to reflect on own practice and respond positively to clinical and professional supervision
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

£25,147 to £27,596 a year £26,530 - £29,114 (24/25 pay award pending)

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