Main area: Psychology
Grade Band: 5
Contract: 8 months (Fixed term contract to cover maternity leave)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 263-ICG25-017-MG
Employer: Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hopewood Park
Town: Ryhope, Sunderland
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/2025 23:59
Higher Assistant Psychologist
Band 5
Job overview
1 x Band 5 Higher Assistant Psychologist
Fixed Term Contract – 8 months to cover maternity leave
Rehabilitation and Recovery Inpatient Services
We invite applications for an 8-month fixed-term contract B5 Higher Assistant Psychologist post in the rehabilitation and recovery inpatient services in the South Locality of CNTW NHS Foundation Trust. The successful post-holder will be based at Hopewood Park in Ryhope, Sunderland.
The broad remit of the role involves working as part of multidisciplinary ward-based teams using a biopsychosocial model supporting the formulation process and providing specialist psychologically informed assessments and interventions. The post holder will receive weekly clinical supervision from a qualified member of the psychology team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder’s main duties are to assist the qualified members of the psychology team in the delivery of psychological services in the rehabilitation and recovery inpatient pathway.
The post holder will:
1. Provide specialist psychologically informed assessments and interventions.
2. Produce professional reports.
3. Support the service in the delivery of training initiatives.
4. Utilise research skills for audit, literature reviews, service development, and other research initiatives.
5. Show initiative to work independently to an appropriate level.
6. Provide compassionate care based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Upper 2nd class honours degree, or higher, in Psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
* Further post graduate training in relevant areas of psychology; mental health practice; and/or research design and analysis.
Knowledge and Experience
* Paid or unpaid work with people with mental health problems and/or disabilities.
* Experience as an assistant/research psychologist.
* Knowledge of evidence-based practice.
* Experience of paid work in direct care provision.
* Experience with client group(s) relevant to the post.
* Experience of psychometric test administration and interpretation.
* Experience of providing individual or group interventions.
Skills and Competencies
* High level of communication skills (written and oral), including an ability to communicate and work in highly emotive circumstances.
* Ability to communicate sensitive information to clients, carers, and colleagues.
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems.
* Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health / cognitive impairment / disability context.
* Computer literate, including use of databases & data analysis, e.g. SPSS for Windows.
* Demonstrates graduate level knowledge and experience of research and research methodology.
* An understanding of psychology as applied to healthcare.
* A high standard of report writing.
Advertising date: 13th February 2025
Closing date: 27th February 2025
We welcome your application.
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