We are looking to recruit a motivated and dynamic Assistant Psychologist across for our Bury South Community Mental Health team, covering Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Sudbury in the West Suffolk Locality
This posts will suit enthusiastic and motivated psychology graduates, ideally with post graduate clinical experience in the NHS, who can show an ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team and passionate about the contribution of a psychological approach to multi-disciplinary care. Prior experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties would be an advantage, or evidence of significant transferrable skills. You will be part of a friendly and supportive clinical psychology and psychological therapies team, and there will good opportunities for professional development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing time limited, focused psychological interventions, including co-facilitating group sessions, and work in a psychologically informed way alongside other members of the psychology team and wider MDT. There will be opportunities to contribute to team training and reflective practice, as well as involvement in service-related audits and evaluation relevant to service needs, under the supervision of a qualified member of staff.
The successful candidate will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, good organisational skills, and the ability to build positive working relationships with service users and colleagues.
We have close relationships with the Clinical Psychology Doctorate training course at the University of East Anglia and routinely offer placements to trainee clinical psychologists. We also have an excellent research department in the Trust.
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Job responsibilities
You will join a supportive and proactive psychology team embedded within the wider CMHT. A range of specialist skills and interests are represented in the psychology teams, including working with personality difficulties, trauma and dissociation, psychosis, CBT, CAT, EMDR, and ACT etc.
Main responsibilities to include:
* Psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate under close supervision of a clinical psychologist
* Co-facilitating psychologically informed groups
* Contributing to the practice of psychologically informed interventions within the team via teaching and developing resources
* Contributing to service development projects
* Evaluating outcomes and writing reports
You will have:
* A BPS Accredited degree 2:1 or above in Psychology and Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) eligibility.
* Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties preferably in the NHS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A BPS accredited degree in Psychology.
Experience
* Experience of quantitative research
* Experience of research in the NHS.
Knowledge
* An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
* Knowledge of mental health.
* Knowledge of quantitative research
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
* An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context.
Skills
* Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
* Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues.
Other
* An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines
* Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
* Ability to travel independently
* Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks
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.
£28,392 to £31,157 a yeargross per annum
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