Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Band 5 Assistant Psychologist
London
Posted about 9 hours ago
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Job Overview
The post holder would support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users within the home treatment team, providing psychological assessments and interventions within the scope appropriate to the level of experience and training and under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, and to undertake related tasks to enhance assessment, intervention, and evaluation within the care group.
Please note this post may close early if a high number of applications are received.
Main Duties of the Job
- To work independently with work managed and goals agreed and reviewed through regular supervision by an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist and within the overall framework of the Team policies and procedures.
- To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collation, and analysis of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, consultation, and project work.
- To undertake projects relating to service development and evaluation.
- To set up databases, spreadsheets, and using advanced IT skills in evaluation audit and research.
- To support assessment and treatment interventions undertaken by the service.
- To undertake direct and indirect clinical work that is managed and goals agreed and reviewed through regular supervision by a qualified applied HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist.
Working for Our Organisation
Kensington & Chelsea Home Treatment Team is part of the acute mental health care pathway within CNWL Trust and is very proud to be accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatry's Quality Network for Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Teams.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Clinical
- To undertake assessments and interventions (including self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observations, and semi-structured interviews of clients, family members, and others involved in the clients' care).
- To assist in the development of psychologically based frameworks of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service.
- To formulate and deliver care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems within settings where there may be a hostile atmosphere, challenging behavior, or high levels of expressed emotion.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups, carer’s groups, and community-based groups.
- To compile risk histories to inform care plans, risk assessments, and crisis plans.
- To work with other team members to improve care practices and the quality of life of clients.
- To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings.
- To support the delivery of evidence-based psychological interventions for clients, including on a 1:1 or group basis.
- To carry out other clinical and administrative tasks as appropriate to the post holder’s grade.
- To be up to date with both de-escalation, physical breakaway, and PMVA techniques appropriate to the service environment.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology, or equivalent. Eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartership with the BPS
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, and/or research design and analysis
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with complex needs
- Working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Relevant clinical and research skills
- Experience of paid work in direct care provision
- Experience of carrying out individual psychological assessments
- Ability to formulate a client’s distress in the context of a psychological formulation
- Experience of providing training to staff members
- Previous experience of working within a mental health service in a psychology capacity
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems and/or other difficulties
- Experience of using psychometric tests
- Experience of carrying out clinical audits and recording routine outcome measures
- Experience of inpatient mental health units
- Previous experience of working within acute mental health care
- Experience of working within a trauma-informed framework
- Experience of communicating sensitive information to individuals and/or their families/cares
- Previous experience of working as an assistant psychologist (Band 4 equivalent) within the NHS
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Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- High-level communication skills (written and verbal).
- 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 mental health problems or other disabilities.
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
- An understanding of psychology applied to healthcare.
- Awareness of the Mental Health Act and other relevant policies/guidelines/procedures
- High level of proficiency in working with databases such as Excel and designing spreadsheets and other tools for analyzing and reviewing data
- To be able to communicate effectively under pressure and maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times
- To be able to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information in a potentially highly emotive atmosphere.
- Knowledge of acute care, including home treatment teams.
- To be able to work with resistance to ideas.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of trauma-informed care approaches/principles
- Awareness of Quality Network for Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams
- Ability to provide effective training for other professionals
- Awareness of systemic ways of working
- Experience of providing teaching sessions
Personal Values/Approach
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a flexible and dynamic approach to working within a busy environment
- Demonstrate and awareness of own difficulties and be self-reflective
- Illustrate a non-judgmental, compassionate approach to service users, carers, and staff members
- Demonstrate effective team working skills
- Ability to travel across sites and work within non-traditional psychology areas
- Ability to use supervision appropriately and effectively
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of mental health difficulties
- Effectively navigating difficult work environments
- Experience of working within a service user’s home
- Show a keenness to work with people who are experiencing a mental health crisis
- A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology
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