Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An opportunity has arisen to apply for the post of Assistant Psychologist within the Wirral Complex Needs Service . The Complex Needs Service plays a role in delivering mental health care for adults with personality-based difficulties and complex trauma. The post-holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team who are predominantly providing direct and indirect psychological care to our client group, whilst also helping to support the wider system that works with our clients. The Complex Needs Service are a team committed to making a difference and creating change for the service users we support. We would like an enthusiastic and motivated person who shares these values to join our dynamic team as an Assistant Psychologist.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to help shape our services and work in a specialist team.

We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Psychologist to support and enhance the psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care. The role will involve working collaboratively with members of the Multi-disciplinary Team providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

The post holder will also assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

About us

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good honours degree in Psychology (2.1 or above). Eligibility for Graduate Membership of BPS.
  • To undertake breakaway training or equivalent following appointment.

Desirable

  • Advanced keyboard skills
  • Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.

Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

  • The ability to communicate complex/ sensitive information where barriers to understanding exist. For example, instances requiring empathy and reassurance.
  • The ability to make judgements involving a range of facts or situations requiring analysis or comparison of a range of options. Also skills for assessing clients in one-to-one sessions, group dynamics or who are participating in research.
  • The ability to organise straightforward tasks, activities or programmes, some of which may be ongoing. Also, the ability to plan and prioritise own workload, research programme activities; group sessions, etc.
  • Working to Professional Guidelines
  • Must be capable of working within guidelines; receives regular supervision and direction.
  • Must be familiar with MS teams and/or Accru Fleming online platforms
  • Previous experience of working with clients with Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma

Desirable

  • Ability to use routinely available spreadsheet/database software (Excel, Access, etc.)
  • Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
  • Experience of cofacilitating therapy groups.

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable relevant work experience or knowledge of working with people who have complex mental health problems, risk patterns and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

  • Relevant work experience of people with mental health problems
  • Desire to progress to Clinical Training (DClinPsy)

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: 25 September 2024

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.