Location: Exeter, EX2 7FW
Salary: £26530.00 to £29114.00
Date posted: 10th December 2024
Closing date: 22nd December 2024
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Job Description:
To support the Neurodiversity recovery programme, Children and Family Health Devon are looking for an Assistant Psychologist to work with the wider multidisciplinary team in supporting specialist autism assessments and diagnostic formulations for children and young people across Devon and Torbay. We are ideally looking for candidates with previous experience in neurodiversity assessments and who have previously worked with children and families.
Main duties of the job
We will ensure that this role offers you the opportunity to:
* Broaden depth of psychological knowledge and experience
* Support clinicians, as well as opportunities in service evaluations and audit alongside direct clinical work
* Deliver evidence-based practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Be supervised by a clinical psychologist
* Develop skills in group work
* Gain greater experience working with Neurodiversity
About us
Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust.
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including Torbay and South Devon FT.
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Job responsibilities
Contribute a range of psychological services to the clients of the Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD), under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist.
Undertake psychological screening, assessment and interventions with children and their parents/carers presenting with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties; this will include producing reports, direct and indirect individual and group work.
Work independently to an appropriate level, under supervision and abiding by the professional guidelines and code of conduct for registered clinical psychologists.
Support research activity including audit, service evaluation, literature reviews and research as required and in agreement with the Clinical Psychology Lead and managers of the service.
The post-holder is responsible for their own workload, but is expected to engage with regular supervision from a qualified Clinical Psychologist and review through the management process.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience in working with children, young people and families.
* Experience of working with children and young people with emotional and mental health difficulties, in a clinical or healthcare environment and/or community-based setting.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
* Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.
* The post holder must demonstrate a commitment to research and engage in a programme of research activity and audit as required.
* Ability to translate basic psychological theory to clinical populations in a clinical setting.
* High standard of report writing.
Qualifications
* Bachelor Degree at Honours level, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
* Further postgraduate training in relevant area of professional psychology, health and social care practice and/or research design and analysis.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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