The Adult Inpatient Psychological service provides psychological input to service users admitted to hospital in acute mental health crisis. Service users present with a wide range of mental health issues, and come from diverse backgrounds. Whilst there are challenges to working with service users presenting in acute states, there are also opportunities for gaining clinical experience working with a broad range of clinical presentations. We, the Adult Inpatient Psychological Services team aim to understand the impact of trauma and adverse experiences on an individuals crisis presentation within the hospital setting. We work together with our MDT colleagues and wider Care unit colleagues to ensure our Service Users experience purposeful inpatient admissions and timely discharges. EPUTs Adult Inpatient Psychological Services team cover 6 inpatient sites across Essex. Each site has a Principle Lead overseeing the area/areas. Our team is comprised of Principle/Senior Practitioners, Arts Psychotherapists, trainees and CAPS. We acknowledge the excellent day-to-day work of our staff team and also pride ourselves on new creative practice as evidenced by recent innovations; such as our Out of Hours access to psychological groups scheme and our nationally recognised staff training packages. The Trust has excellent links with Essex University and Hertfordshire clinical psychology doctoral training programmes, as well as EPUTs in-house CAP training programme. As an Assistant Psychologist, your main responsibilities will include: To assist the Consultant and Lead Psychologists/ Psychological Therapists To assist with service-related administration tasks, such as updating and evaluating our referral database. To assist with service evaluation and audits, including collecting and analysing data and producing reports to be shared with MDTs and service users. To assist in the development and facilitation of groups as appropriate. To assist in the formulation of care plans involving the psychological treatment/ management of service users worked with, under the supervision of a qualified professional. To assist with teaching and training initiatives. To assist in the development and implementation of new clinical initiatives. To use a computer as necessary for clinical work, including literature searches, word processing, developing training packages and information leaflets, maintaining psychology service database, emailing, report writing and other tasks as necessary for the efficient running of the service and/or training needs. If you would like to be a part of shaping and contributing to innovation in mental health delivery, are a champion of quality initiatives and have an interest in delivering interventions for people with severe mental health problems then we are keen to interview you and see if we can offer you the opportunities you deserve. For more information please see attached Job Description and Person specification.