Job overview
We are looking for a highly skilled, compassionate assistant psychologist to join us in Pennine Care NHS foundation trust CAMHS.
Why Pennine Care CAMHS?
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the CAMHS Care Hub.
We support staff to work flexibly and recognise and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of their working hours.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone’s value should be recognised and respected.
We proactively challenge injustices, and are the only Trust in the North West to publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and. We also have thriving to make sure everyone has a voice.
We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme
Our trust values are:
Kindness, Fairness, Ingenuity and Determination
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an assistant psychologist committed to these values and with a passion for working with children and their families to join us and work with the consultant clinical psychologist and lead for psychological therapies in the CAMHS care hub to continue to develop psychological therapy services across the care hub.
You will support the psychological therapies lead by assisting in the delivery and reporting on the psychological therapies training programme and the CAMHS psychological therapies services initiatives and supporting the care hub wide psychological therapies group with their projects and reporting on these to the chief psychological professions officer.
There will be opportunities for some supervised clinical work with children and families also.
Does this sound like you? If so we’d love you to join us.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
These can be found in the attached job description and person specification in the documents to download section below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience as a Psychology Assistant
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* An understanding of the difficulties of children with neurodevelopmental conditions and / or mental health problems and the needs of their carers
* An understanding of psychology applied to health care
* Knowledge of child development
Desirable criteria
* Evidence of ability to design and evaluate research projects relevant to Clinical Psychology
Skills
Essential criteria
* High level of communication skills (written and verbal)
* Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance
* Ability to devise observational measures
* An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines. An ability to interact with children with mental health problems / disabilities and their families
* Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
Desirable criteria
* High Standard of report writing
* An interest in working with children with mental health problems / disabilities and their families
* A desire to explore a career in Clinical Psychology
If you have problems applying, contact
Address
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
Telephone
01617163181