Main area: Diabetes & Endocrine
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months
Hours: Part time - 22.5 sessions per week (3 day working week)
Job ref: 153-ME04215
Employer: University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites
Town: Bournemouth
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 pa/pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three-site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
Job overview
We are looking for a psychology graduate to join the UHD Young Person’s Diabetes Team in an exciting new Assistant Psychologist role.
This is a fixed term, 1 year post at 22.5 hrs per week, based across both Bournemouth and Poole Hospitals. You will work with the Clinical Psychologist in the Service to support the delivery of emotional wellbeing services to young people aged 16-23 years with a diagnosis of diabetes.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital
Main duties of the job
The post holder will contribute to the psychological screening, assessment, formulation and therapies provided to young people (16-23) within the diabetes service. They will work as part of the multi-disciplinary diabetes team on quality improvement initiatives as well as support the delivery of teaching and training to the team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
* A BPS accredited degree in Psychology conferring graduate basis for registration (GBR)
* 2:1 Psychology degree, or higher
Experience
* Experience of working as an assistant psychologist or other equivalent recognised work experience.
Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
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