North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Assistant Clinical Psychologist
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Assistant Clinical Psychologist – Band 5
Part Time - 30 hours per week, permanent
We have an exciting vacancy for a part-time (30 hours per week) Assistant Clinical Psychologist to work within our very welcoming and friendly, research active, large and ever-growing North Staffs Neuropsychology (NSN) team. The postholder will work at The Bennett Centre, within our Neurocommunity and long-COVID outpatient services, employed by North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, a CQC-rated ‘Outstanding’ Mental Health Trust. The post is available due to the current postholder gaining a place on Clinical Psychology doctoral training (we have an excellent record of assistants progressing onto clinical training).
There is some flexibility to allow home working at times, depending on service need. The post holder will receive weekly clinical supervision from a senior, principal or consultant psychologist/neuropsychologist, and be part of a large, supportive team of psychologists. There is opportunity for teaching, research, clinical audit and CPD.
Core Features Of The Role Will Include
- Working alongside a Senior Psychologist/Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Multi-Disciplinary Team to provide high quality psychological formulation and intervention for patients
- Administration and scoring of neuropsychological assessments, screening tools and outcome measures
- Providing structured interventions under the supervision of a Psychologist/Neuropsychologist
- Working with people who have complex needs which can present/lead to challenging situations or behaviours and risk.
- Assistance with service development and evaluation
- Supporting psychologists to offer group interventions
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Essential Experience:
- Previous experience of working with adults with physical, cognitive or mental health problems
- In person and online patient appointments in addition to telephone triaging of new referrals
Desirable Experience:
- Previous experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
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We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Lorraine King
- Job title: Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Email address: Lorraine.King@combined.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0300 123 1535
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