Assistant Psychologist Ashton-under-Lyne, England
Job description
We currently very excited to be recruiting a full-time (1.0 wte) Assistant Psychologist the equivalent of 2.7 WTE 8a (or band 7 preceptorship into 8a). This is an exciting within the Family Intervention and Therapy Service (FITS) with the opportunity to form close links with core CAMHS to support the development of your generic and specialist skills alongside our well established team of psychologists and other multi-disciplinary team members.
FITS is a multi-disciplinary CAMHS team embedded within Children's Social Care with an emphasis currently on training and consultation to promote trauma informed practice across the workforce. We are looking for an Assistant Psychologist with an interest in working in a Children’s Social Care setting to join our team. The role will include supporting the delivery of training to the children’s services workforce, service development and direct clinical work with children, young people and families. There will be an opportunity to develop your own therapeutic skills with access to quality training and clinical supervision as part of the role.
About us
Tameside and Glossop Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is based in Stalybridge, Tameside. We are a multidisciplinary team providing a mental health service to children, young people and their families. The service has well-established links with our partner agencies including Education, Children's Social Care (CSC) and the Third Sector and is well on the way to being fully aligned to the Thrive approach. We are fully committed to supporting our staff with great access to CPD opportunities, robust clinical and management supervision, and access to an induction training program covering key areas of clinical practice.
T&G CAMHS is extremely proud to be a forward-thinking service with a long history of innovative service development. Recent investment has supported the establishment of a highly innovative relationship-focussed and trauma-informed therapeutic service co-located within Children's Social Care working at all levels of the Child Protection Framework, which this post sits within.
This is a really exciting time to become part of our service, as we seek to substantially expand and develop our team following recent and significant new investment. As such we are delighted to be actively seeking to recruit a range of new staff who will be joining our already well established, highly skilled and supportive staff team here in Tameside and Glossop.
If you think you might be interested in this post, we would love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities of the Post:
Key responsibilities will include raising awareness of ACES and the impact of developmental trauma within the Childrens Service workforce through training and consultation to embed the consideration of developmental trauma and attachment theory in approaches to working with families. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology input to FITS and core CAMHS. To undertake direct assessment and intervention with our children, young people and their families under the supervision of qualified clinical psychologists. To offer training both internally and externally to our partner agencies. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team. To utilise skills for audit, service evaluation and service development as appropriate.
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology with entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society and previous experience as an Assistant Psychologist is essential for this role. The successful candidate will need to be an excellent communicator and enjoy team and multi-disciplinary working. The post involves working in various locations so the ability to travel across Tameside & Glossop is essential.
