Assistant Psychologist

**Assistant Psychologist**:
**Band 5**:
**Main area**
- Psychology
- **Grade**
- Band 5
- **Contract**
- Fixed term: 12 months
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Please note some flexibility regarding working pattern is required due to a move towards 7 days working)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-216**Site**
- Longreach House
- **Town**
- Redruth
- **Salary**
- £27,055 - £32,934 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
We are looking to appoint 2 x Assistant Psychologists to work on the Acute Mental Health wards at Longreach House.

The roles will include a mixture of clinical work including group and individual work. There will be work with the ward teams supporting reflective practice and team formulation.

This is an exciting time to be joining the ward teams as we are implementing a new psychology model which will need evaluation, so this role provides opportunities for service development and evaluation.

These roles are supported by a full time Clinical Psychologist based on site and a wider inpatient psychology team who work together across wards.

**Main duties of the job**:
To work as a fully integrated member of the multidisciplinary teams working within the Acute Care pathway, according to a plan agreed with the service teams and the supervising psychologist.

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of patients within the designated services by providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist working within the service, and by working independently according to a plan agreed with the service teams and the supervising psychologist.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of outcome statistics, and/or other project work as appropriate and agreed with the service teams and supervising psychologist.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live