Assistant Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Mental health team at HMP Whitemoor as an Assistant Psychologist. The role will be to support our clinical psychologist in the care of clients and to deliver psychological therapies. You will also work closely with Mental health Practitioners and the wider healthcare in delivering trauma informed service.
As part of the Stepped care model as an Assistant psychologist you would be able to work with clients with low level mental health needs using basic counselling, anxiety management and depression and anxiety. You will provide psychological assessment, formulations, and interventions under the regular clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist. Part of your role will be to deliver structured interventions that you are trained in depending on the clients need.
There will be an expectation to partake in service development, audits and data collection on a regular basis.
psychological assessments
One to one interventions
counselling
low level interventions /anxiety management /sleep hygiene/ Emotional regulation
Formulations using the 5 P's
structured interventions
service development
Audits
Data collection and statistics
Working alongside Mental health practitioners and the wider Healthcare
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.