Job Summary
We are looking to recruit a Assistant Psychologist to work with a friendly, lively, supportive, innovative and inspiring team, with a good track record of Assistant’s progressing in their career both within Clinical Psychology and other relevant fields.
You will join a department of 4 Assistants, 2 trainee Clinical Associates in Psychology, a trainee CBT therapist and 7 qualified Clinical Psychologists, collectively covering the Memory Assessment Pathway, Community Mental Health Planned and Unplanned Pathways and Inpatient Services. The post will be based in Cannock,though there will be times where the role requires you to travel between, or input into, different MPFT sites, and includes working from home when required with equipment provided by the Trust. There will be plenty of opportunity for peer support and clinical supervision. You will also have a fundamental role in up-keeping the service waiting lists and contributing to service evaluation and audit to constantly find means to improve the service.
Main duties of the job
All clinical activities will be under the close clinical supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist within the Planned pathway of our Community Mental Health Service. You will have a significant role in delivering elements of service individually or in groups for Service Users such as anxiety management, graded exposure and emotions programme. You will, where appropriate, contribute to the clinical assessment of service users. You will also contribute to the assessment, formulation and intervention within care homes where there are indications the care home staff are finding it difficult to understand and/or meet the person’s emotional needs as that individual’s ability to communicate their needs deteriorates. There maybe times when you are required to conduct audits or service evaluation to assist with the development of the psychology and wider service. The Assistant Psychologist may be involved with training staff, delivering groups, using outcome measures and evaluating the effectiveness of the interventions delivered. Administrative duties will include the maintenance of referral databases using excel, SharePoint and OneNote.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Psychology (1st or 2:1) or 2:2 with substantial relevant clinical experience. Eligibility for Graduate Basis for Registration with the British Psychological Society.
Desirable
- Further training in counselling/ mental health Further education to Masters Level in a relevant subject
Skills
Essential
- Communicate appropriately with others at work. Listen to, understand and follow lengthy or multi-step instructions and narratives on a range of topics and in a range of contexts. Listen and ask questions to understand and appreciate the points of view of others. Respond appropriately to queries and complaints. Speak clearly and confidently in a way that suits the situation. Write effective emails, short reports and records. Read and understand a variety of texts.
Experience
Essential
- Communicate appropriately with others at work. Listen to, understand and follow lengthy or multi-step instructions and narratives on a range of topics and in a range of contexts. Listen and ask questions to understand and appreciate the points of view of others. Respond appropriately to queries and complaints. Speak clearly and confidently in a way that suits the situation.
- Write effective emails, short reports and records. Read and understand a variety of texts.
Desirable
- Experience of being a service user or carer.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of project work, including data analysis.
- Experience of working with older people, people with dementia or people with cognitive difficulties Experience of working with culturally diverse populations
- Experience of delivering group interventions
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.
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: 04 February 2025
