Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-6394414
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maudsley Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,279 - £33,116 per annum incl. of HCAs pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 4
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Assistant Psychologist to join a newly developed part of the specialist perinatal mental health service in SLAM. The NHS Long Term Plan includes a commitment to develop new Maternal Mental Health Services (MMHS) which are a partnership between maternity and perinatal mental health services.
The aims of the service are to support the delivery of trauma-informed care in maternity and increase access to evidence based psychological therapies for people who are experiencing mental health difficulties arising from, or related to, the maternity experience (e.g., in the context of childbirth or when there is the loss of a baby).
Helix offers psychological assessment and intervention for women and birthing people who experience pregnancy loss or the death of a baby, and who have or develop, a moderate-severe mental health problem. There is also a focus on working with the maternity system to reduce distress and other mental health difficulties (e.g., PTSD) in the context of birth and loss. Ensuring that Helix is co-produced and works to address health inequalities in relation to obstetric and mental health outcomes is a priority.
The Helix clinical team is made up of a psychology service lead, psychologists or psychological therapists, specialist midwives and expert by experience co-ordinators.
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Psychologist will have opportunities to be involved in different clinical activities under the supervision of senior psychologists/psychological therapists- including the delivery of clinical care for women, birthing people and families and the delivery of staff support. The Assistant Psychologist will also have a crucial role in supporting audit and evaluation of the new service. There will be opportunities to work alongside those with lived experience and develop skills in working psychologically in a health setting and with grief and trauma.
You would be joining a supportive and growing team of perinatal psychologists in the wider perinatal mental health service in SLAM including those who work in the community perinatal mental health teams and specialist Mother-Baby Inpatient Unit.
The role will be working across the 4 SLAM boroughs and may require some travel across south London.
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training. SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To assist practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist secondary care psychology service in the newly developed Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS) across Croydon, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth.
· To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
· To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
· To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, while closely supervised and regularly seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelors degree with Honours in Psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sufficient post-graduate experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological need
- Graduate level knowledge of psychological research methodology and statistical analysis.
- Skills in relevant psychological assessment and interventions that enable working as a pre-qualified practitioner with close clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing supporting teaching and training provided by psychologists or others to other professional groups
Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team,
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Danielle Jackson
- Job title
- HELIX team leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Rachel Mycroft: [email protected]
List jobs with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors