Honorary Assistant Psychologist/Therapist

1 week ago

Romford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

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Job overview

We are looking for undergraduate and postgraduates Psychology students or in other social science fields, to join our Honorary team of clinician's within a Excelling performance IAPT service - Havering Talking Therapies

You will have a passion and interest in mental health, providing high standards of primary care support (assessment and CBT intervention both via group and 1:1 format) and keen motivation in pursuing a career as a Psychological Wellbeing practitioner or Trainee CBT Therapist.

1 year - Hon. Asst Psychologist/Therapist (Havering Talking Therapies (IAPT)

Post Title : Honorary Assistant Practitioner/Psychologist Grade: Honorary placement ( unpaid) Equivalent level: Band 3 - 4

Hours: Part-time minimum of 3 days ( hours) per week for a minimum of 6 consecutive months and a maximum of 12 months generally

Department: Havering IAPT (NELFT)

Reports to: CBT Therapist/Senior HI Therapist

Accountable to: Clinical Lead or Service Manager

Location: Various locations in the Borough of Havering (Petersfield Centre & Gubbins Lane)

Liaises with: IAPT colleagues, other psychological therapies staff including, where applicable, members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a client’s care, including team psychologists and clinical team leaders.

Evaluation, audits, collection of statistics, development of audit projects, and other special project work.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will achieve this by:

Focusing support to allow individuals to have meaningful lifestyles. Supporting the Trust Mission and Trust Vision by incorporating the Trust’s values and Staff Charter into their day to day role.  Supporting Talking Therapies Havering to implement the national IAPT agenda within a local context. Having an in depth understanding of the Five Year Forward View for mental health

Key Responsibilities:

Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the clinical/training element of the post. Apply learning from the training programme in practice. Receive supervision from educational providers in relationship to course work to meet the required standards. After completing 12 months Honorary therapist/assistant psychologist post, you will be supported to apply for a place on the Band 4 trainee PWP course (associated with UCL) – thereafter, once successful completion of the training – Havering IAPT may offer you a permanent 3 years contract as a Qualified PWP.

Working for our organisation

Havering Talking Therapies is the highest performing NELFT IAPT service and we also pride ourselves with working a strong collaboration with our NEL colleagues (other NELFT IAPT services). We are looking for undergraduate and postgraduates Psychology students or in other social science fields, to join our Honorary team of clinician's within a Excelling performance IAPT service - Havering Talking Therapies

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Post Title : Honorary Assistant Practitioner/Psychologist Grade: Honorary placement ( unpaid) Equivalent level: Band 3 - 4

Hours: Part-time minimum of 3 days ( hours) per week for a minimum of 6 consecutive months and a maximum of 12 months generally

Department: Havering IAPT (NELFT)

Reports to: CBT Therapist/Senior HI Therapist

Accountable to: Clinical Lead or Service Manager

Location: Various locations in the Borough of Havering (Petersfield Centre & Gubbins Lane)

Liaises with: IAPT colleagues, other psychological therapies staff including, where applicable, members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a client’s care, including team psychologists and clinical team leaders.

Job Purpose

The primary purpose of the post is to support and enhance the psychological care of service users accessing Havering IAPT Talking Therapies Service. In particular, the main focus will be conducting: -

Writing and organising therapy groups (power-point & patient manuals) Assisting with recruitment for step 2 & step 3 groups Co-facilitating (Step 2 & 3) groups where appropriate Calling patients to ascertain administrative information. Outreach work/projects. Auditing and Data analysis for treatments. Ad-hoc tasks instructed by management. Conducting triages (under close clinical supervision) Holding a small caseload of clients accessing 1:1 therapy *(this only relates to applicants that are affiliated to an accredited university studying psychological therapy-CBT)*

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Any type (voluntary, as a carer) of Mental Health experience (support worker, key worker, trainee post)

Desirable criteria

working within the field of Mental health (VCS, statutory or charity sector)

Qualifications

Essential criteria

undergraduate degree in Psychology and/or MSC in psychology or social science

Desirable criteria

Further relevant training undertaken in Mental Health, Psychology or applied psychology

Knowledge/Skills

Essential criteria

Knowledge of common mental health problems Key Rogerian Core Principles skills and knowledge

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of how IAPT and/or primary care service operate

Aptitudes

Essential criteria

Compassionate, caring, good organisational skills

Desirable criteria

Willing to give above and beyond in your duties

Other

Essential criteria

committed to future ongoing training as a PWP trainee within Havering IAPT

Desirable criteria

Car - able to travel in-between sites

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

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 a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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