Assistant Psychologist (Clinical Health Psychology) Bristol, England
Job description
The Psychological Health Services team provides psychological support for patients undergoing treatment within a range of departments across University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. The service works with both in- and outpatients and contributes to service development and research projects.
Psychological Health Services are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and professional Assistant Psychologists to join the team.
The positions will involve a mixture of direct work with patients and non-patient facing tasks. Duties will include the administration and scoring of standardised psychometric assessments, the collection and inputting of clinical outcome data, dissemination of psychosocial information, maintaining databases, analysing data and contributing to research.
We are advertising for band 4 and 5 positions depending on experience. Applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post but may not yet have clinical experience as an assistant psychologist are encouraged to apply.
These posts are initially fixed term until the end of March 2024, however, there is scope for them to be extended beyond this. We will consider requests for part-time or flexible working.
Please indicate on your application form how many days you would ideally like to work. Once we have a sufficient number of applications, we will close the advert, this may be before the advertised closing date.
The post holders are expected to be eligible for membership of the British Psychological Society at Graduate Basis for Registration having achieved either a 2:1 honours degree, or higher, in psychology or having completed a British Psychological Society accredited psychology conversion course.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description including the main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
