Employer Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site City Care Centre
Town Peterborough
Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 16/04/2025 23:59
Assistant Psychologist
Band 5
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and dynamic band 5 Assistant Psychologist to join our team to support the delivery of neuropsychological rehabilitation within the Cambridgeshire Integrated Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) and Community Neuro Rehab Service.
This post will be based in the north of the county, and you will be working across a range of settings, including seeing patients in their own homes, at outpatient clinics and an inpatient rehabilitation centre at City Care Centre in Peterborough. This post involves community working and as such there will an expectation to travel.
You will primarily work with patients located within the north Cambridgeshire regions (such as Peterborough, Wisbech, Ely, March). However there may be times where you are expected to cover further across the county.
This is 12-month fixed term contract, 0.8 FTE (4 days a week).
Main duties of the job
To support the delivery of neuropsychological care to stroke & other brain injury survivors experiencing cognitive, emotional and behavioural difficulties as a result of their injury. This role is part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) comprised of a team of Clinical Psychologists specialising in Neuropsychology, Neuro Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, Nurses and other healthcare staff.
The role involves providing neuropsychological assessment and interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist. You will have opportunities to work closely with other multidisciplinary teams in the community, primary care, the acute neuro rehab team, and other external agencies.
Staff personal and professional development is viewed as highly important, and staff have the opportunity to receive training through an in-house in-service training programme as well as being supported to undertake a blended competency package to help you develop within your profession and role. An intensive Trust and Local induction will be provided.
The ideal candidate will be flexible and adaptable to support service delivery across the organisation. The post holder must have access to a personal car for independent travel across the work locality. The successful candidate will work in an agile manner using virtual consultation to manage their caseload of patients, having access to a smart phone and laptop to support this.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
* To support and enhance the professional psychology care of clients of the Integrated Stroke ESD and Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service across inpatient and community settings.
* To provide psychological assessment and neurophysical 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 team's policies and procedures.
* To assist in clinically related administration, conducting audits, collection of data and statistics, development of audit and/or research projects and teaching.
* To attend psychology supervision on a weekly basis and engage in CPD as agreed with supervisor and professional manager.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology.
* Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
* Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
* Some experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities in a health or social services setting.
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
* Some experience of conducting psychological assessments (neuropsychological/ standardised assessments).
* Previous experience of an assistant psychologist post or equivalent.
* Previous experience of working with people with neurological conditions.
* Lived experience of mental health.
Skills & Abilities
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive, and in delivering sensitive information.
* Able to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively including reflection.
* Interpersonally calm and able to diffuse difficult, volatile situations.
* An ability to work effectively with the Multidisciplinary team while maintaining boundaries.
* An ability to work independently (planning own workload), reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
* Good organisational skills including time management but the ability to be flexible.
* Experience using computers for databases or data analysis, especially SPSS for windows & Excel.
* Experience of delivering evidence based psychologically informed interventions.
* Experience of conducting service evaluation/audit / research.
* Experience of working directly with people with neurological conditions.
* Experience of working with carers.
* Some knowledge of the theory behind neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation.
* An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to people with neurological conditions.
* Some knowledge of behavioural management advice.
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people living with long term neurological conditions, including the issues of emotional adjustment.
* Some knowledge of models regarding emotional adjustment to long term conditions.
* Knowledge of the psychological issues relevant to existential issues.
* Knowledge of Mindfulness and Compassion Focused Therapy.
Physical Requirements
* Must have access to a personal car and the ability to drive independently around the locality, due to the radius covered and lack of public transport in some area.
Other
* Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude.
* Able to travel within the locality.
* Advanced keyboard skills.
* Previous use of clinical systems such as SystemOne.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
* Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
* Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
* Children’s community services in Peterborough;
* Ground-breaking research.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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