This is an exciting opportunity to join Elysium Healthcare as an Assistant Psychologist at their St Neots Neurological Centre. You will have the chance to work with a dedicated team to make a real difference in the lives of those affected by neurological or mental health conditions. This temporary role offers great career development opportunities and a range of benefits.
Main duties of the job
As an Assistant Psychologist, you will contribute to psychological assessments and formulations, facilitate interventions, assist in designing and delivering training, and undertake various research and administration tasks. You will work under the supervision of the Senior Psychologist to provide care and support to service users.
Job responsibilities
As an Assistant Psychologist, you will be:
* Contributing to psychological assessments and formulations
* Facilitating psychological interventions on a 1:1 and/or group basis to service users, monitoring and reporting upon their effectiveness
* Assisting in designing and delivering specialist training to others
* Assisting with the delivery of reflective practice for staff
* Maintaining clinical databases
* Completing outcome measures
* Writing reports for various audiences
* Service evaluation and other research tasks including collecting, analysing, and reporting upon an array of statistics
* Undertaking clinically relevant audits
To be successful in this role, you will have:
* A minimum of an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology conferring eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
* Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist in a forensic and/or mental health setting in a similar role
* Experience of maintaining office systems and undertaking administration tasks
* Creative thinking, clinical efficacy, and a strong commitment to working with evidenced based models of therapeutic intervention
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* To meet professional practice expectations including the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics, and the BPS code of ethics and conduct
Where you will be working:
Location: Howitts Lane, Eynesbury, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 2JA
You will be working in the heart of St Neots in Cambridge, working alongside the team at St Neots Hospital which offers care, therapeutic and rehabilitation pathways for those affected by a neurological or mental health condition for which challenging behaviour may be the leading impairment.
What you will get:
* Annual salary of £24,300
* The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – (Inc Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off!
* Subsidised meals
* Free parking
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
* Pension contribution to secure your future.
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
* Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
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