Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) and the At Risk Mental State (ARMS) teams in North East Essex (Colchester and Tendring).
The successful candidate will work in the EIP team, a multi-disciplinary team who work with people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Under the EIP umbrella sits a smaller ARMS team. This team offers psychological interventions to young people (14-35) with early experiences such as voice-hearing, seeing visions, or paranoia and aims to prevent transition to psychosis.
As an Assistant Psychologist, you would work to support and enhance the clinical and psychological care of clients within the EIP/ARMS service, across all sectors of care. There may be opportunity for assisting in and conducting individual, family and group interventions, consultation, and training for internal and external staff (e.g. education, health and charity organisations). This will be under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist.
You will play a key role in audits and service evaluations and collection of team outcome measures, along with a range of psychology administration tasks. There is also scope for development of clinical research projects, teaching and project work.
This is a Fixed Term Contract (12 months).
Please be advised that this advert will close early as we anticipate a high number of applications, please ensure your applications are submitted as soon as possible.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to assist with a varied range of tasks.
You will support and enhance the professional psychological care of adults and young people who are experiencing, or at risk of psychosis. This includes supporting psychological assessment and interventions under the supervision of a Clinical psychologist, according to a plan within the framework of the Trust's policies and procedures. This will be through both direct and indirect work.
Depending on experience, the responsibilities of the job may involve assisting in completing complex assessments, (including structured interviews and psychometrics) and communicating the outcome of these to clients, team colleagues and other professionals. It may involve delivering individual or group interventions for clients or their loved ones, and supporting service-user involvement. It will involve supporting a range of wider projects in collaboration with community organisations, education providers and mental health colleagues across a range of services. You will offer support to the wider EIP psychology team in organisational tasks, audits and service evaluation.
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There will be opportunities for continuing professional development, including attendance at training events and team case discussions.
For Further Main Duties Please See The Job Description.
Working for our organisation
Our EIP/ARMS teams across the trust provide specialist services for people who are experiencing psychosis for the first time, or may be at risk of psychosis. We are passionate in supporting people and their families through what can be a difficult and confusing time; helping them to make sense of what is happening, feel more in control, and work towards their goals. The post holder will be required to work across the North Essex locality including the Colchester, Clacton and Harwich areas
Valuing you. Recognising 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.
- We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
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 prioritised 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 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 organisation 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) programmes 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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