Cheswold Park Hospital
Assistant Psychologist
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Job Summary
My name is James Hussain; I am the Team Manager for Secure CAMHS. We are a collaborative MDT Team with a diverse range of professional expertise.
We are seeking a Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join our secure CAMHS team at Adel Beck Secure Childrens home. Adel Beck is a 24-bedded secure childrens home for young people aged 10-18, remanded or sentenced by the criminal courts, or accommodated for their own welfare.
You will work closely with the Principal Clinical Psychologist and other team members to enhance trauma informed care throughout the service. The role is primarily indirect, focusing on supporting staff teams, contributing to psychologically informed care, and ensuring formulation drives decisionmaking, risk assessment, and care planning. However, underpinning this, the role involves developing strong working relationships with all our residential staff and young people. The role is focused around helping translate psychological thinking into everyday practice and supporting the creation of safe, attuned, and consistent environments for young people. You will be part of our Neurodevelopmental pathway and involved in these assessments. You will be working within an experienced multi-disciplinary team and under a supportive operational and clinical leadership team.
Secure CAMHS operates Monday- Friday-8am-8pm (12-hour period).
Please call if you have any questions and we encourage a visit to the service, if you are offered an interview.
Main duties of the job
This Assistant Psychologist role sits at the heart of our secure CAMHS service, working closely with the Principal Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Practitioners, Speech and Language Therapy, and Occupational Therapy to embed trauma-informed, formulation-led practice across the whole system of care. The role is primarily indirect, with a strong emphasis on supporting staff teams, contributing to psychological thinking, and helping shape the everyday environment around young people.
You will play a key part in developing and sustaining trauma-informed formulations that guide care planning, risk assessment, and intervention pathways. This includes regular opportunities for consultation, reflective practice, and joint formulation work alongside senior colleagues, ensuring that psychological understanding meaningfully influences how the service supports young people.
A core aspect of the role involves building collaborative relationships with residential care staff, helping translate psychological ideas into day-to-day interactions. You will also get to know young people directly, supporting the development of therapeutic relationships that inform assessment. You will also contribute to the neurodevelopmental assessment pathway and ND-informed care planning.
Working within an experienced MDT, you will have access to ongoing training, supervision, and professional development.
About Us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
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Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Details
- Date posted: 10 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 4
- Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: C9378-F0707A
- Job locations: Adel Beck Secure Childrens Home, East Moor Lane, Leeds, LS16 8EB, United Kingdom
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and / or research projects, teaching and project work.
Clinical:
Key Result Areas:
- To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. To include psychological monitoring of behaviour, for example extensive file review of past frequency/severity of challenging behaviours, introduction of additional behavioural recording, and/or direct, time-sampled observation on an individual basis.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and / or management of a clients problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist in community settings.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups or clinical projects. To work with other staff to assess in-patients and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
- To assist in the development of a psychological 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.
IT Responsibilities (clinical)
- To use highly developed IT skills.
- To access knowledge through Internet searches (e.g. Psych.Lit, Medline) to keep up to date with clinical and professional development.
- For the preparation and presentation of materials of effective teaching and training (e.g. power point, graphic representations) to record and analyse data for research and audit (e.g. databases, spreadsheets, statistical analysis packages e.g. SPPS).
- To create graphs or charts to collate or summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.
- To assist in producing visual or material or user friendly information for interventions with clients.
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Teaching, training and supervision
- In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
- To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
- To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
For Full Job Description, Please See Attached Supporting Documents.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.
For Full Job Description, Please See Attached Supporting Documents.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.
Person Specification
Physical Attributes
Essential
- Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Qualifications
Essential
- An Honours degree in Psychology (2:1).
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Special Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- 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.
- Ability to communicate information which may be perceived as contentious to patients, carers and colleagues in a manner that promotes understanding and acceptance.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or other disabilities.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to health and social service contexts.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
Desirable
- Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis.
- Experience using microcomputers for databases or data analysis especially
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