Assistant Psychologist

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**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job Title: Assistant Psychologist**

**Responsible to: Clinical Lead**

**Department: The Edinburgh Practice**

**Hours: Full time 5 days per week (40 hours), Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.**

**Salary: £25,000**

**Holidays: 28 days per year**

**JOB PURPOSE**

**We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Assistant Clinical Psychologist to join The Edinburgh Practice. The post will involve working closely with the Clinical Director and Clinical Lead.**

To work with the Clinical Lead and Clinical Director to support and enhance the development of The Edinburgh Practice services.

A key part of this role involves developing social media content for social media platforms.

To support the Clinical Lead with the delivery of training.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, and project work.

The post holder will work independently and exercise initiative and may be involved in direct patient care under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist and in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team.

**2. ROLE OF THE EDINBURGH PRACTICE**

The Edinburgh Practice is a well-established multi-disciplinary practice that provides a range of high-quality, evidence-based health services to children, adults and families, including:

- Psychological assessment, formulation and intervention
- Psychiatric assessment and intervention & Memory Clinic
- Neurodevelopmental assessments (Autism, ADHD) and post-diagnostic intervention and support
- Educational psychology assessments
- Speech and language therapy assessment and intervention
- Psychosexual therapy
- Family and couples therapy
- Occupational therapy

**3.** **MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES**

**SERVICE DEVELOPMENT**
- To support the Clinical Lead with quality improvement projects.
- To support the Clinical Lead with a programme of clinical audits.
- To assist the Clinical Lead in providing training to practice staff.
- To keep up to date on relevant policy, legislation and research. To consolidate relevant documents into concise reports to keep the Clinical Management team abreast of key developments in the field.
- To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
- To undertake database searches for literature and research papers to inform evidence-based practice and service development work.
- To support the team with the production of resources and materials.
- To work with qualified staff to involve children, young people and families in service feedback and development.
- To design and implement audit and research projects.
- To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical packages.

**CLINICAL**
- To support the autism/ADHD assessment teams in gathering collateral information including developmental history and observations from parents/carers/family members/schools to contribute towards assessments.
- To write succinct clinical reports reporting findings from school observations and gathering assessment information from collateral sources (e.g. teachers, parents).
- To support the Clinical Lead with management of referrals including management of waiting lists.
- Administration and scoring of psychometric questionnaires.

**IT RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Undertake to collect, process, interpret and report information using appropriate software.
- Use IT systems to record clinical activity, caseloads and waiting lists.
- Use IT systems relevant to clinical interventions i.e. for scoring psychometric tests.

**GENERAL**
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholder’s manager, demonstrating a commitment to continuous personal and professional development.
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing in accordance with the professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and practice policies and procedures.
- To actively engage in supervision with Clinical Lead and seek support when required.
- To maintain principles of continuous improvement, client care and work in accordance with The Edinburgh Practice’s policies and principles.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues, maintaining good working relationships.
- Maintain confidentiality and data protection regarding all personal information at all times, in accordance with relevant legislation and professional codes of conduct.

**4.** **SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT**
- The postholder would be required to use computer software for databases, statistical analysis for research, and for the preparation of materials for clinical use. In ad