Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated professional with significant knowledge and/or experience in Autism? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term Assistant Psychologist post to support in our Adult Assessment Service in Shropshire Telford and Wrekin. The Adult Autism Assessment Service is a small multi-disciplinary Team and as part of your role you will contribute towards specialist autism diagnostic assessments for Adults. The team is led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and made up of Speech and Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist. The team is reliant upon effective working relationships and we work closely with local services, including mental health teams and adult social care. We provide compassionate, person-centred and evidence-based care.This is a challenging but rewarding role and we encourage applications from experienced professionals who have lived experience and/or who are passionate about working with autistic people.

Main duties of the job

As part of this role you will:

  • Attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
  • Under the clinical supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, to undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
  • Assist in the formulation of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
  • To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
  • To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
  • To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
  • To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.
  • To undertake searches of evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A First or Upper Second honours degree in psychology OR a lower Second degree with a post-graduate qualification, e.g. Masters degree.
  • Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Desirable

  • Undergraduate degree included study of Psychopathology/Clinical issues.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience supporting neurodiverse people (either in a paid, voluntary or lived experience capacity) in a hospital/residential or community settings.

Desirable

  • Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist.
  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.

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: 29 May 2025

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