psychologist London, England
Job description
It’s all about relationships.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative Assistant Psychologist with an interest in working with the providers of services for adult homeless people with complex health and social needs within hostels. This is a Band 5 twelve-month fixed-term post. Previous post holders have gained places on clinical psychology training courses.
You must be keen to embrace the privileges of working in a diverse borough and have an interest in working with people with complex mental health difficulties and from a range of religious, spiritual, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. You will have the opportunity to develop clinical, research, evaluation, consultation and teaching/training skills.
The postholder will work with Psychologists who support organisations and teams to deliver psychologically informed environments and develop their trauma informed and neuro informed work. In addition, we support service user and carers’ inclusion into psychological services and therapeutic opportunities. There are opportunities to support service user’s engagement in service development work. This post is mainly working with staff in teams, the overall goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of homeless people, promote their social connections, community engagement and participation.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
