Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

The Transforming Care in Autism team aims to fulfil the remit of the national Transforming Care Programme in three inner London boroughs: Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. The team is focused in working with autistic adults who do not have a learning disability diagnosis; a population who have so far been poorly served by the Transforming Care implementation and who often fall between services.

The Transforming Care in Autism (TCA) service was developed to meet the needs of autistic individuals at risk of admission to, or within, mainstream mental health services.

The team approach is two-fold: 1 Increase capability of mainstream adult mental health services to work with autistic adults through teaching and training; and 2. Provide a crisis response for named service users at risk of admission, working with the treating mental health teams.

Main duties of the job

  • To assist Practitioner Psychologists in the delivery of specialist applied psychology service in the Transforming Care Autism Service.
  • To carry out individual assessments and interventions as required by the service, under the close clinical and professional supervision of a qualified Practitioner Psychologist.
  • To coordinate and deliver psychology groups when required.
  • To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
  • To work at appropriate levels of independence, following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, while closelysupervised and seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager as required.

About us

The neurodevelopmental pathway includes a wide range of services staffed by multi-disciplinary colleagues including psychiatrists, psychologicalpractitioners, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and nurses, supported by skilled administrative and managerial staff.

There is a commitment across the service to ongoing reflection and service development to ensure services are efficient and responsive. We have close links with Kings College and undertake research across the service, as well as offering support and teaching to their Masters and Doctorate courses.

  • About our locations

This role is a mix of home working (including Teams meetings) and face-to-face working which can include working at one of our bases listed below, and other Trust or community bases as required.

The Bethlem Royal Hospital

Maudsley Hospital

Lambeth Hospital

Lewisham Hospital

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelors degree with Honours in Psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society and confers the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society.

Experience

Essential

  • Sufficient post-graduate experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs in mental health or other disability specific services to be able to work clinically with close direct supervision.
  • Post-graduate experience of conducting research projects or audits.
  • Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.

Desirable

  • Experience of specialist psychological assessments and treatment for autistic service users or other neurodevelopmental conditions

Knowledge/ Skills

Essential

  • Good theoretical knowledge of the problems experienced by and needs of people with neurodevelopmental conditions and of methods of assessment and treatment.
  • Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, information to clients, families and colleagues
  • Skills in providing support to teaching and training provided by psychologists or others to other professional groups

Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, participating in effective team functioning and holding team roles.
  • Ability to manage occasional emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 18 November 2024

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