psychologist Leicester, England
Job description
To support and enhance the psychological care of service users. To provide psychological advice, assessment and intervention under the supervision of qualified psychologists. To assist in programme development. To undertake clinically related administration, audit, data collection and
analysis, development of audit/research projects, teaching, training and project work: all under the supervision of qualified psychologists.
The Clinical and Forensic Psychology Service at Arnold Lodge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Psychologist to join an enthusiastic and cohesive team of Qualified and Assistant Psychologists. The post will involve working in all three care streams. It offers the opportunity to develop skills and competencies in a range of areas of forensic mental health.
You will work with a specialist multidisciplinary team that values psychological approaches. You will be supported by experienced Clinical & Forensic Psychologists. As part of the role, you will contribute to the development and evaluation of specialist treatment programmes, tailored to the complex mental health and offending behaviour needs of this population. You will be encouraged to conduct service-relevant evaluation / research and promote services as a centre of excellence.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of patients.
These will include neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating
scales and semi-structured interviews with patients.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the
psychological treatment and/or management of a patient treatment needs
To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
To work with other staff to assess patients and provide treatment.
To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of
understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across
all settings where care takes place.
