Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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About the Role
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, committed, and compassionate Assistant Psychologist to join our Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The newly appointed clinician will join our multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Community Learning Disability Nurses, and Support Workers.
We are a lifespan service and provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with:
- learning disabilities and physical health needs
- mental health needs
- forensic histories
- behavioural expressions of need
- dementia, amongst other areas of work.
About You
The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family, systems, and professional colleagues to:
- enhance health and well-being
- improve quality of life for our clients and their systems
- address health inequalities
- promote positive health outcomes
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The post-holder will be empathetic, adaptable, and responsive to the needs of our patients and have experience of working with people with learning disabilities. Experience of working with dementia is also desirable. The post-holder will also demonstrate emotional resilience and a capacity to maintain a compassionate approach even in stressful situations. Experience of using psychometrics or carrying out research would be beneficial as this will be a key part of the role.
The Role
The post combines:
- administrative support for qualified psychologists
- a clinical role, focussing on supporting our qualified staff in assessments and therapeutic interventions
- support with research/service development and audit
Where You'll Be Working
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
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We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
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Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Fiona Bamford
- Job title: Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
- Email address: Fiona.Bamford@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01912952764
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