Assistant Psychologist Salford, North West England, England
Job description
Job overview
12 Month Fixed Term
We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed graduate psychologists with a good honours degree.
This is an opportunity to work in a vibrant and friendly department, providing psychological assessment, interventions and consultation for patients under the supervision of a consultant psychologist.
You will work within the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Salford Royal and will benefit from a supportive team of colleagues, including four consultant clinical/counselling psychologists, as well as clinical psychologists, health psychologists and CBT therapists.
It is essential that you have good interpersonal and communication skills and excellent computer and database skills. Experience of working in clinical health psychology is desirable.
You should have the ability to work closely with medical colleagues and members of various other disciplines, and have experience of multi-disciplinary team work.
Main duties of the job
- Work with patients suffering from a range of medical/surgical conditions as part of the clinical health psychology team
- A range of activities including providing psychological therapy for patients, co-facilitating psycho-educational groups, data analysis, literature reviews, data collection and audit.
Please note we may close this position early once a sufficient number of applications are received.
Working for our organisation
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.
Person specification
Registration / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in Psychology with 2:1 minimum.
Desirable criteria
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design or analysis.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential criteria
- Contact with people with psychological and/or physical health problems.
- Understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with psychological difficulties and/or other physical health problems.
- A good knowledge of lifespan psychology applied to healthcare.
- Experience of using IT software e.g.Excel for databases or data analysis.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of those with psychological and physical health difficulties (especially chronic fatigue).
- Experience of using psychological or psychometric tests.
- Touch typing
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of our local community. If you are disabled and require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.
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