Assistant Psychologist

Job description

Job summary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Assistant Psychologist to join our growing psychology team in the East Sussex Rehab pathway.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT) is committed to improving access to psychological professions, utilising funding from NHS England, to offer paid assistant psychologist positions to aspiring clinical psychologists. Please note that the funding is specifically intended to break down barriers to gaining appropriate experience in the profession. Whilst the role is open to anyone who can suitably reflect on structural inequalities, we are particularly keen to encourage applications from those that identify as belonging to a group that are nationally recognised as being under-represented in Clinical Psychology. These are:o Individuals from ethnic minority back-groundso Those from low socio-economic back-grounds as defined by Gov.uko Individuals with unpaid caring responsibilities as defined by NHSE

The East Sussex Rehab Pathway aims to support those with severe and enduring mental health difficulties including Psychosis to make meaningful recovery. We work across both inpatient facilities at Amberstone Hospital and community bases at both Eastbourne and Hastings. We are committed to increasing access to Psychological therapies and recovery orientated, trauma informed care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support and enhance the professional psychological care to those currently supported through the rehabilitation pathway in East Sussex. This will involve clients currently admitted to Amberstone hospital and those under the care of our community teams based at Eastbourne and Hastings. The role will be to deliver psychological interventions under the guidance of a qualified psychologist. It will be to liaise with the MDT and with families/carers, other professionals and organisations to promote communication and good practice.

Experience of working with psychosis and severe and enduring mental health presentations and experience of using therapeutic models associated with this client group.is desirable but not essential

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing psychological assessments and interventions within the scope appropriate to level of experience and training.

About us

We realise it can be difficult to embark on careers in the psychological professions and we hope that, by offering these posts, psychology graduates will have the opportunity to gain a wealth of valuable and relevant professional experience, to support career progression in the psychological professions. As part of the programme we are keen to follow up with successful candidates about their journey through the programme and beyond.

As part of this programme, we have successfully run a mentoring scheme where AP's in post have been offered mentoring with a Trainee Clinical Psychologist currently undertaking the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training at The Salomons Institute. We hope to continue running this scheme.

Sussex Partnership Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Working in Sussex:

We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

To be a successful Assistant Psychologist in our team you will be/have:

• Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology or equivalent.
• Eligible for graduate membership with British Psychological Society
• Have access to a car- Travel between sites is essential to the role and unfortunately public transport is limited.
• Please note that the funding is specifically intended to break down barriers to gaining appropriate experience in the profession. Whilst the role is open to anyone who can suitably reflect on structural inequalities, we are particularly keen to encourage applications from those that identify as belonging to a group that are nationally recognised as being under represented in Clinical Psychology. These are: Individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds Those from low socio-economic backgrounds as defined by Gov.uk Individuals with unpaid caring responsibilities as defined by NHSE
• You must be able to demonstrate a caring, compassionate and non-judgmental attitude, and show a commitment to making a difference when supporting clients and their families on their recovery journeys

Clinical experiences may include: Supporting group sessions Present clinically prepared information to patients within workshops / webinars, un-der the supervision of a qualified clinician Quality improvement work to include research / audit / support with clinical pathway coordination and analysis Liaison with a range of services to include health, social care and voluntary agencies to support patient pathways Observe supervisor or other members of MDT conduct assessments, take notes during assessment and write these up afterwards for supervisor to check. Gather information about a service user from the Clinical Information System to assist overall assessment of a service user. Observation of full neuropsychological assessments, scoring of neuropsychological tests to be checked by supervisor and discussed in supervision.

Non-clinical experiences may include:

• Administration and scoring of outcome measures
• Involvement in service evaluation, audit and research projects (including but not limited to: database and questionnaire design, data analysis, preparation of NHS ethics forms and audit proposal forms, literature review)
• Collation of information of local services, preparation of service user information leaflets and creation of displays about local services/psychological themes for ser-vice user waiting areas.
• Assistant psychologists will receive one hour of supervision per week and may re-quest a reference from their supervisor.
• A specialised induction programme and ongoing support will also be available to assistant psychologists to support learning in these posts.

See attached Generic Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

[email protected]

Job description
Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

To be a successful Assistant Psychologist in our team you will be/have:

• Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology or equivalent.
• Eligible for graduate membership with British Psychological Society
• Have access to a car- Travel between sites is essential to the role and unfortunately public transport is limited.
• Please note that the funding is specifically intended to break down barriers to gaining appropriate experience in the profession. Whilst the role is open to anyone who can suitably reflect on structural inequalities, we are particularly keen to encourage applications from those that identify as belonging to a group that are nationally recognised as being under represented in Clinical Psychology. These are: Individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds Those from low socio-economic backgrounds as defined by Gov.uk Individuals with unpaid caring responsibilities as defined by NHSE
• You must be able to demonstrate a caring, compassionate and non-judgmental attitude, and show a commitment to making a difference when supporting clients and their families on their recovery journeys

Clinical experiences may include: Supporting group sessions Present clinically prepared information to patients within workshops / webinars, un-der the supervision of a qualified clinician Quality improvement work to include research / audit / support with clinical pathway coordination and analysis Liaison with a range of services to include health, social care and voluntary agencies to support patient pathways Observe supervisor or other members of MDT conduct assessments, take notes during assessment and write these up afterwards for supervisor to check. Gather information about a service user from the Clinical Information System to assist overall assessment of a service user. Observation of full neuropsychological assessments, scoring of neuropsychological tests to be checked by supervisor and discussed in supervision.

Non-clinical experiences may include:

• Administration and scoring of outcome measures
• Involvement in service evaluation, audit and research projects (including but not limited to: database and questionnaire design, data analysis, preparation of NHS ethics forms and audit proposal forms, literature review)
• Collation of information of local services, preparation of service user information leaflets and creation of displays about local services/psychological themes for ser-vice user waiting areas.
• Assistant psychologists will receive one hour of supervision per week and may re-quest a reference from their supervisor.
• A specialised induction programme and ongoing support will also be available to assistant psychologists to support learning in these posts.

See attached Generic Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

[email protected]

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology, or equivalent with graduate basis for registration with BPS

Desirable

• Further post graduate training in relevant area of professional psychology

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Ability to recognise and reflect upon personal and societal bias along a range of dimensions of difference

Desirable

• Individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds
• Individuals with unpaid caring responsibilities as defined by NHSE
• Those from low socio-economic back-grounds as defined by Gov.uk o
• Experience of group work and individual therapeutic contact
• Experience of working with a multidisciplinary team
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care
• Experience of in-patient settings

Skills

Essential

• To be able to communicate effectively
• To assimilate complex information and use reflective/analytic thinking
• Capable of using initiative and organise work to agreed goals
• IT skills

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree at 2:1 or above in Psychology, or equivalent with graduate basis for registration with BPS

Desirable

• Further post graduate training in relevant area of professional psychology

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Ability to recognise and reflect upon personal and societal bias along a range of dimensions of difference

Desirable

• Individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds
• Individuals with unpaid caring responsibilities as defined by NHSE
• Those from low socio-economic back-grounds as defined by Gov.uk o
• Experience of group work and individual therapeutic contact
• Experience of working with a multidisciplinary team
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care
• Experience of in-patient settings

Skills

Essential

• To be able to communicate effectively
• To assimilate complex information and use reflective/analytic thinking
• Capable of using initiative and organise work to agreed goals
• IT skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Amberstone hospital

Carters Corner

Hailsham

BN27 4HU

United Kingdom

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