Assistant Psychologist - Health and Justice

Assistant Psychologist - Health and Justice Warrington, North West England, England

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Warrington, North West England, England 23944 - 27013 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Health and Justice Services part of the Specialist Service Care Group for GMMH are looking to recruit a committed and dynamic Assistant psychologist to join the mental health team within HMP Risley.
The team comprises of multi-disciplinary professional’s providing mental health support to men across the prison site. We are seeking an assistant psychologist to support the team and wider prison establishment in providing a strong psychological and formulation driven understanding of mental health, emotional distress and trauma responses.
The post holder would be expected to work closely with the clinical psychologists and PWP staff and hold a caseload of clients providing detailed assessments, formulations, intervention and therapy under clinical supervision.

  • To work with the clinical psychologist to complete detailed psychological assessments, formulations and to offer interventions, both group and individual, to service-users who reside at HMP Risley .
  • To contribute to specialist assessments to inform ongoing care.
  • To support psychological perspectives and trauma informed understandings to the mental health team and wider establishment.
  • To develop strong working relationships with partnership agencies and stakeholders to support safe and effective collaboration and management of risk.
  • To work within the stepped-care model of mental health provision.
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

To work with service-users and others involved in their care to support improved psychological health and well-being.

To complete psychological assessments to inform clinical formulations and contribute to risk management, under supervision of the clinical psychologists.

To provide psychological interventions in the form of group and individual therapies under clinical supervision.

To contribute to multi-disciplinary discussion and offer psychological opinion and understanding of service-user presentation.

To promote a developed and applied understanding of mental health presentation, which will include psychological understandings of personality and trauma responses.

To support the development of trauma-informed ways of working across the mental health team and wider prison establishments.

To contribute to effective risk management strategies and service evaluation.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

Staff benefits

Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Assistant Psychologist - Health and Justice
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

www.nhs.uk
London, United Kingdom
Amanda Pritchard
$5 to $25 million (USD)
10000+ Employees
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1946
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