Assistant Psychologist Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Band 4 Assistant Psychologist working for the Cambridge Adult Locality Teams (Psychosis pathway) with the adult mental health population.
Due to continued success with our assistant psychologists getting onto doctoral and clinical associate psychologist programmes, we have an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic, motivated, compassionate, and conscientious Assistant Psychologist to join the Cambridge Adult Locality Teams within the psychosis pathway.
The role will include the opportunity to undertake direct clinical work under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist.
We expect to receive a high volume of applications and will close the advert early if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Please thereforeonly apply if you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. Failure to do so may result in a suitable candidate missing out on the opportunity to apply.
- To support and enhance the professional psychological care of service users with a range of complex presentations within secondary adult mental health locality teams.
- Undertake clinically supervised work with service users on a one to one basis delivering psychological/therapeutic interventions
- Under supervision, plan, organise and teach on a variety of psycho-educational courses.
- Work independently according to a plan agreed with qualified psychologists and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- Undertake R&D activities under the supervision of responsible psychologist or others: to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
- To provide psychological interventions and maintain a clinical caseload, under supervision from the psychologists.
- To support the psychology team and wider locality team in psychological assessment, care provision, planning and delivery of evidence-based interventions.
- To assist the psychology team in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials, such as the development of treatment manuals and group interventions.
- As required, to support the team in delivering, managing and evaluating other psychological interventions, such as psychology groups.
- To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
- To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
- To ensure that service users are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment.
- To communicate skilfully, tactfully and sensitively highly complex and highly sensitive information with service users, families and colleagues.
- To work with the appropriate degree of autonomy and report appropriately to the designated line manager according to Trust occupational guidelines.
