Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist
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Job Overview
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We are looking to employ an Assistant Psychologist to help with the provision of psychology input on our rehabilitation units based at Horton Haven, Epsom.
The post holder will be required to contribute to team-based psychological treatment provisions, attend team meetings, and support our colleagues in Occupational Therapy and Arts therapies who also provide interventions on site.
The main duties will involve contribution to clinical work such as provision of behavioural programmes, and offer 1:1 sessions of targeted, time-limited, evidence-based interventions based on components of CBT/DBT programmes as appropriate. The post holder will work closely with a qualified Clinical Psychologist or psychological therapist in organizing and co-facilitating Psychology-led CBT based psycho-education or group therapy programmes. The post holder will also be expected to get involved in audit work such as collating relevant information on clinical activity and outcomes and report these at regular intervals as directed by the Psychology Lead, team manager, or the site Service Manager.
Main duties of the job
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor’s expertise and intervention as and when advised and directed.
- To work according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
Working for our organisation
The CNWL Rehabilitation Service provides MDT based recovery-orientated input as well as clinical psychology services to adults with long-term, complex needs within its catchment area, within the broader aims and objectives of the Adult Psychology Specialty. It engages in audit, relevant clinical research, and professional training activities and the post holder will play a key supportive role in some of these activities.
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Rehabilitation services are offered from multiple sites within the bounds of the CNWL trust. These include Horton Haven, Colham Green, Roxbourne Complex, Rosedale Court, Blue-bell Lodge, and Kingswood Centre.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
- To undertake, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, protocol-based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including neuro-psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members, and others involved in the client’s care.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings.
- To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To work with other staff to assess inpatients, day patients, or residents, and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
- To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
- To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
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Essential criteria
- An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, and/or research design and analysis.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Be a car driver and have use of a car because the post will be community-based.
Desirable criteria
- A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work with people with mental health problems.
- Previous experience in post-graduation experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
- Participation in the consent process for patients recruited to research.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- High-level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with severe mental health problems.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
Desirable criteria
- Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.
- High standard of report writing.
Personal
Essential criteria
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to interact with people with mental health problems.
- Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
Desirable criteria
- An interest in working with people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
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