Assistant Psychologist Watford, East of England, England
Job description
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust is an Outstanding Provider of mental health services. Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service (CRHTT) meet the needs of individual’s living in Hertfordshire who are experiencing a mental health crisis.
We are looking for a caring and committed Assistant Psychologist to work alongside the multi-disciplinary Crisis team under the supervision of a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist.
The role is based at Colne House in Watford. Psychology is highly valued and sought after in these teams.
This is a varied role with opportunities to offer individual work, group work, deliver training to non-psychology colleagues, service evaluation and supporting the qualified Psychologists with other duties. It provides fantastic opportunity to develop and expand your existing clinical skills. All work is underpinned by recovery principles and Trauma Informed Care.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organization with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
To undertake psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist:
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of intervention plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s problems, under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist.
- To take responsibility, under supervision, for the collection and co-ordination of clinical data from Psychological Services staff working across the County, and to develop efficient ways of reporting this data to senior staff in the organisation.
- To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups, activities, social skills groups, and to be an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
- To work with other staff to assess service users in preparation for multidisciplinary reviews.
- To attend and contribute to appropriate team and multi-disciplinary meetings
