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Full time (37.5hrs) Band 5 Senior Assistant Psychologist

• Ideal opportunity to gain further experience working alongside a practitioner psychologist in a busy clinical environment, developing and delivering specialist neuropsychology services to an inpatient stroke unit.
• Will strengthen further applications to professional training courses for the psychological professions e.g. Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology doctoral programmes

You must already have some experience in working clinically in relevant area following completion of a recognised undergraduate degree in Psychology (conferring GBR with the British Psychological Society)

Provision of neuropsychological assessments, interventions (behavioural and/or cognitive), report writing, representing psychology at MDTs, audits, teaching and project work (where appropriate).

Strong clinically focused skills required to work in an intensive environment with a range of healthcare professionals to deliver high quality care to those affected by stroke.

Significant degree of autonomy will be expected from postholder as the only fulltime member of the psychology team.

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 support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the Stroke Service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the department and multi-disciplinary team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

Working Environment

The post holder will be expected to work in inpatient and sometimes in outpatient settings within Trafford General Hospital’s stroke services and the Department of Clinical Psychology. The post holder may occasionally be required to provide domiciliary visits when necessary. The post holder will be expected to travel to other locations to attend meetings and to meet other administrative needs of the service.

The post holder will be expected to be able to transport test materials between work sites and to manipulate test items to a satisfactory degree and to be able to concentrate for long periods of time in the performance of assessments as well as in the writing up of the results. Post holders must have a capacity to provide services in constrained or adverse conditions; they may be required to sit in a constrained way for long periods of time. The post holder may be required to work with clients and inpatients in abusive or hostile conditions and may experience sensitive and potentially distressing situations on a regular basis. The client group may include people with a range of organically induced behavioural management disorders.