Assistant Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a small team of Psychologists who are improving pathways and delivering therapies for victims and survivors of sexual assault across Norfolk & Waveney. This Enhanced Mental Health Pathway (for Sexual Assault and Abuse) team will be working with service users with complex trauma presentations, working across NSFT community teams and VCSE and system partners like the Sue Lambert Trust, Survivors in Transition, and the Harbours Centre. In addition to providing highly specialist therapies, the team will provide consultation and training to system partners.

Main duties of the job

In this assistant psychologist role, under the supervision of a Consultant Psychologist, you will be supporting the evaluation of the EMHP (SAA). You'll be meeting service users to support service user involvement, collect clinical outcomes and will be supporting NHSE dashboard reporting.

To support the evaluation of the EMHP (SAA) To collect clinical outcome data and support reporting To manage information and materials on intranet pages and teams channels To co-create and co-deliver training To co-ordinate audit and service evaluation. To co-facilitate psychoeducational groups

About us

Benefits included with this role are:-

NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.

CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

Interviews are to be confirmed, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days' notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

See attached job description

To support the evaluation of the EMHP (SAA) To collect clinical outcome data and support reporting To manage information and materials on intranet pages and teams channels To co-create and co-deliver training To co-ordinate audit and service evaluation. To co-facilitate psychoeducational groups Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BPS Accredited degree in Psychology

Experience

Essential

Experience of quantitative research

Desirable

Experience of research in the NHS

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of Mental Health & quantitative research An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

Desirable

An understanding of the needs & difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities. An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context.

Other

Essential

Ability to travel independently.

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