Assistant Psychologist: 0-5 Team

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate assistant psychologist to join the Parent and Infant Relationship (PAIR) CAMHS Team in Luton, to form part of the exciting Luton Best Start Family Hub initiative.

Luton Best Start Family Hubs and Flying Start are a Luton early years partnership and strategy for under 6’s. Flying Start have developed early targeted and specialist support for parents, infants and young children, working closely with CAMHS Luton to support staff to undertake infant-parent observations and early years’ interventions.Within Best Start Family Hubs, Luton CAMHS works closely to further develop integrated pathways for families so they can receive the right level of support at the right time.

Main duties of the job

You will help develop and implement the Family Hubs model of early support for families with infants and young children in Luton, to deliver and evaluate the complex community interventions. You will help analyse outcome/evaluation measure data to measure impact and write reports to disseminate evidence thereof. You will need to advise other staff on the use of outcomes and stakeholders on their data analysis and emerging themes. You will be able to conduct literature searches and summarise latest evidence, and be able to conduct evaluation and research studies as appropriate and agreed for the service.

You will also deliver training to frontline practitioners on early years’ mental health and contribute to the provision of evidence based interventions for parents and very young children. You will be based in the Family Hubs and CAMHS. You will provide suitable clinical interventions under the supervision of an experienced Clinical Psychologist or senior clinician as appropriate as part of the multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good undergraduate degree in psychology meeting British Psychological Society (BPS) with (eligibility for) graduate membership of the BPS.
  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems and /or other disabilities.
  • Ability to use computers for database analysis, such as SPSS, for windows and qualitative analysis packages
  • An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context

Desirable

  • Relevant specialist training or qualifications in therapeutic approaches in order to: -facilitate clinical interventions -understand challenges clinicians have in collating outcomes
  • An understanding of organizational issues, which may affect day-to-day work
  • Local knowledge and understanding of Luton

Skills

Essential

  • Experience of inputting data and using Microsoft Office; Experience with using computers for database analysis
  • Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist or similar roles, working with people with mental health needs
  • Ability to work with a degree of independence in the community Family Hub and other community settings outside of the CAMHS base

Desirable

  • Experience working in a multi-cultural setting; Experience working in a clinical team; Experience of developing and delivering training to staff groups; Experience of contributing to service development
  • Competent use of other IT packages e.g. PowerPoint, Excel, RiO

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 2 August 2026

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