Assistant Psychologist - Band 5 Coventry, England
Job description
Band 5 Assistant Psychologists -Primary Care Mental Health
Full time
Are you looking for an assistant psychology post that will provide you with new opportunities and experience?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to permanent full-time experienced Assistant Psychologists to support the partnership and collaboration of primary and secondary mental health care across Coventry and Warwickshire. There will be the opportunity to work within a designated PCN across our Coventry locality.
We recognise that placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices and promoting early assessment, treatment and interventions in a recovery focused way will help people with mental health problems achieve the best possible outcomes.
The NHS Long term Plan Community mental health transformation is a national movement supported by NHS England, with a huge amount of investment at a local level to improve the delivery of mental health care in local communities. The transformation project across Coventry and Warwickshire brings together health, social care, voluntary and community sector organisations and our strategy is coproduced between experts by experience and experts by training.
Please note many Trust interviews take place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.
Our Assistant Psychologists will provide psychological interventions to a wide range of adults presenting within primary care with mental health needs. You will be part of a mental health approach which will be multiagency, ensuring the wider determinants of mental health are considered as part of the service users’ formulation. You will offer psychological assessment, formulation, and brief therapeutic intervention, using evidence-based programmes that may be individual or group based under the supervision of an experienced qualified clinical psychologist.
You will receive regular supervision from an experienced clinical psychologist and will be line managed by an experienced senior healthcare professional.
As an organisation we are committed to co-production and delivering trauma informed care and welcome applications from people who share our aspirations to deliver services that are informed by our users and considerate of the impact of trauma within our healthcare community.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
The post holder will be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, will be someone who is passionate about improving mental health care is highly organised, with ability to work with a degree of autonomy.
Please note the post requires you to have completed a British Psychological Society recognised degree course and some previous experience working in a mental health setting (this could be in the NHS, care sector or voluntary sector). Regrettably we are unable to accept applications from undergraduates.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us: -
Debbie-Anne Sharkey and Hayley Richardson: [email protected],Tel: 07920 813012 [email protected],Tel: 07570 344755
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
