Senior Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship Available

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Rampton psychology team as an Assistant Psychologist to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the National Learning Disability.

The post holder will have the opportunity to join a vibrant busy team of qualified staff and assistants and will be required to work alongside and under the supervision of qualified clinical or forensic psychologists in relation to one or more clinical teams.

Under supervision of a qualified psychologist the post holder will provide a specialist psychological assessment and therapy service to ward clinical teams within the Hospital. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy and will offer advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously as appropriate and within professional guidelines and Rampton Hospital’s policies, procedures and service priorities.

Under supervision you will participate fully in multidisciplinary clinical teams in providing a service to their patients. Will develop knowledge and skills in general aspects of forensic clinical psychology and in particular the assessment and treatment of patients within relevant services. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service to which they are allocated.

Main duties of the job

  • To be responsible for providing highly specialist psychological assessments to patients within the National Learning Disability service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the patients’ care.
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, individual and group, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
  • To be responsible for providing safe, compassionate and evidenced based care in accordance with professional codes of conduct and trust policies and guidelines.
  • To maintain records of care and treatment in accordance with trust policies and guidelines.

Person Specification

Contractual Requirements

Desirable

  • A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Good degree in Psychology; and ability to demonstrate eligibility for graduate membership of the BPS.

Desirable

  • Further relevant post-graduate training (e.g. in Forensic, clinical or other applied Psychology discipline).

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in Forensic services with individuals with Learning Disability or autism
  • Experience of delivering group or individual psychological work
  • Experience of psychometric testing (delivery, scoring and interpretation).
  • Experience of MDT working
  • Previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist

Desirable

  • Experience of completing risk assessments;
  • Experience of conference presentations, publications or teaching.

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context; or gender specific context
  • Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with regular supervision
  • Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries

Desirable

  • Evidence of research skills
  • Experience and application of formulation

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: 08 December 2024

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