Employer: North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Blurton Health Centre
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata, per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/02/2025 23:59
Assistant Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare's Children and Young People's Service Line are looking to recruit a full time Assistant Clinical Psychologist to support our Mental Health Support Teams.
The successful candidate will support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the agreed Directorate, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with the qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
You will assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
Main duties of the job
1. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, deliver therapeutic interventions developed or guided by the qualified psychologist or otherwise defined by protocol, for individual clients and for families, including, for example, planned programmes or other appropriate psychological interventions.
2. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist, assist in the planning, development, co-ordination and delivery of therapeutic groups, including, for example, group approaches to the management of anxiety, stress, or emotional regulation psycho-educational group approaches to the understanding and self-management of psychotic systems, and other protocol based group interventions.
3. When completing clinical duties, receive, obtain and communicate complex and sensitive clinical and personal information, sometimes in circumstances where there may be constraints on the motivation, cooperation, understanding or acceptance of the service users involved or their families.
Working for our organisation
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist, undertake assessments of factors relevant to the development, maintenance and understanding of the client’s difficulties, using standardised psychometric instruments, protocol-based assessment tools, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and structured and semi-structured interviews as required.
2. Assist qualified psychologists in the scoring, analysis, interpretation and reporting of psychological assessments undertaken with clients and others.
3. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, assist in the formulation of the client’s difficulties and in the planning and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of the client’s problems in school and community.
Person specification
Qualifications
* An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Experience
* Experience of work with children and adults with mental health problems or disabilities, or other relevant problems or disabilities (e.g. learning disabilities, organic impairment).
Knowledge
* High level of interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to work and effectively communicate complex or sensitive information in highly emotive and emotionally charged settings involving conflict and significant personal distress.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity. We offer a variety of flexible working opportunities for both full and part time staff. Job Share applicants will be fully considered and applications are particularly welcomed from current and previous service users.
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