Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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Job Overview
We have a half-time vacancy for an Assistant Psychologist in our South East Essex ARMS (At Risk Mental State) for Psychosis Services in Essex. We are a standalone multidisciplinary team with psychological staff, peer support workers, a recovery coordinator, and an employment and education specialist. We have been operational for just over four years now and we continue to develop and update our processes and ways of working. We take a psychological approach to all aspects of our service.
We cover Southend, Rayleigh, Castlepoint, and Canvey Island. We offer flexible working and remote work is possible for some of the role. It is an interesting and diverse role which will provide the successful applicant with broad experiences and good learning opportunities in both clinical, audit, and service development tasks. We are looking for someone who is friendly, hardworking, adaptable, with excellent organizational skills. We are one of three ARMS teams in the Mid and South Essex area and we do a lot of joint development. We are also closely connected to our local Early Intervention in Psychosis team.
Main Duties of the Job
The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to assist with all parts of the Psychological Service provision, including individual and group assessments and interventions, supporting projects such as service user involvement, therapy, or carers support, administrative and organizational tasks, audit, and service evaluation. The role also includes working with and supporting all members of the multidisciplinary team where appropriate.
We are looking for a graduate in Psychology who has some relevant experience working in health and social care settings. The post holder will need to be organized to assist the psychology team in managing referrals and collecting and evaluating outcomes of interventions as well as having creative skills for producing documents and resources that are part of our ongoing development as a service. There will be opportunities for involvement in work that cuts across the other MSE ARMS teams.
To learn more about working within our Services at EPUT, please view our recruitment videos, where members of the team share their experiences and insights into their roles and what it is like working within our Psychological Services, here at EPUT.
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Please view our video link here: Psychological Services
This vacancy will close early due to an anticipated high number of applications, please ensure that your application is submitted as soon as possible.
Working for our Organisation
Valuing you. Recognizing your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
- Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
- Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
- If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice, and counselling.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
- Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
- Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
- Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritized for registered roles at this time.
Important note: Please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities; we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format, i.e., Braille or audio tape, etc., please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net, and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
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The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly. We would advise, however, due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021, require that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organization will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised, and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
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Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programs are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
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