What you will be doing
You will be working people with long term neurological conditions, alongside addressing conditions like depression, self harm, physical health concerns, and psychological distress including trauma.
As an Assistant Psychologist you will have the opportunity to assist with assessments, formulations, and treatment to our service users, under the supervision of the Senior Psychologist. You will also assist in clinically related administration including conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
At The Moorlands Neurological Centreyou will have the chance to develop specialist skills through out your time with us. Your professional growth is important, which is why there are numerous career development opportunities to keep you learning and improving.
To start your career at The Moorland Neurological Centreapply today.
As an Assistant Psychologist you will be:
1. Contributing to psychological assessments and formulations
2. Facilitating psychological interventions on a 1:1 and/or group basis to service users, monitoring and reporting upon their effectiveness
3. Assisting in designing and delivering specialist training to others
4. Assisting with the delivery of reflective practice for staff
5. Maintaining clinical databases
6. Completing outcome measures
7. Writing reports for various audiences
8. Service evaluation and other research tasks including collecting, analysing, and reporting upon an array of statistics
9. Undertaking clinically relevant audits
To be successful in this role, you will have:
10. A minimum of an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology conferring eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
11. Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist in a forensic and/or mental health setting in a similar role
12. Experience of maintaining office systems and undertaking administration tasks
13. Creative thinking, clinical efficacy, and a strong commitment to working with evidenced based models of therapeutic intervention
14. Strong organisation skills
15. Good interpersonal and communication skills
16. To meet professional practice expectations including the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics, and the BPS code of ethics and conduct
Where you will be working:
Moorlands Neurological Centre is being developed as a neuro behavioural hospital service for men and women over the age of 18 years, who have an acquired brain injury. The service will support and care for people who, because of their injury, have challenging and complex needs that are preventing them from making further progress with their lives and require a neuro behavioural rehabilitation. programme.
What you will get:
17. Annual salary of £25,935
18. The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
19. Free meals and parking
20. Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
21. Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
22. Pension contribution to secure your future.
23. Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
24. Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.