Job summary
- Main area
- Assistant Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 186-905-24-FS
- Employer
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wathwood Hospital
- Town
- ROTHERHAM
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/08/2024
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
Job overview
Are you looking for something a bit different, a new challenge, a varied role?
Wathwood is an award-winning mental health hospital and prides itself on providing the highest quality of care to our patients.
We have exciting opportunities here at Wathwood in our unique Medium Secure setting. Whether you are newly qualified and looking to take your first step on your career ladder, or fancy a new challenge, we have something to suit everyone.
We are seeking to recruit an assistant psychologist to join our fantastic multi-disciplinary teams within the hospital who are motivated to establish therapeutic relationships with our patients and be actively involved in delivering patient care within a hospital setting. Experience of working in a forensic setting is desirable but not essential. You will also be expected to assist patients with their reintegration into the community as part of their rehabilitation and recovery.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 15th August 2024
Due to the high number of applications we receive for Assistant Psychologist posts, this advert will close when 50 applications have been received, so please submit your application to us as soon as you can.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly motivated assistant psychologist to join our team, in a challenging but rewarding role, to make a difference to the lives of our patients.
Applicants must have good interpersonal, planning and communication skills. We are looking for a candidate who is non-judgmental, professional, supportive and empathic towards patients and colleagues with the ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team. They must have the ability to set and maintain appropriate professional boundaries. Promote and maintain high standards of care through excellent communication, motivation, supervision and role modelling.
The post holder will work under the supervision of Forensic and Clinical psychologists to support the delivery of psychological assessment and interventions for adult male mentally disordered offenders within a medium secure hospital.
Some work experience and/or post-graduate training relevant to forensic services is desirable. It is essential that the post-holder values working within multi-disciplinary teams. Supervised experience of delivering structured group programmes is welcomed. Professional development and the well-being of our staff is crucial to support the delivery of key objectives for the hospital and wider Trust. We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of patients including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, and others involved in the patient’s care, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.
To assist in formulation and the delivery of psychological treatment and/or risk management plans under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
To assist in the running of therapeutic groups under the supervision of a qualified psychologist
To work with other staff to assess patient’s and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
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 wards where care takes place.
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Person specification
Physical requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to sit for periods of time.
- expectation to complete breakaway training and further violence response training.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A degree in psychology recognised by the BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate training in area relevant to Forensic Psychology and/or research.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work in health or social care setting
- Supervised experience of delivering structured group work programmes
- Understand MDT working
Desirable criteria
- Supervised experience of psychometric testing
- Work with people with complex mental health issues
- Work in forensic/secure settings
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of broad issues in psychological and risk assessment
- Ability to understand and apply psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users
- Good communication skills
- Group work skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering presentations, teaching, or training
- Use of SPSS, databases, spreadsheets etc. & interpretation of data
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All staff should be able to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as identified within the Trust’s Equality and Diversity Policy and associated Equality, Diversity and Human Rights legislation
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
- Tansy Warrilow
- Job title
- Consultant Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01709 870800
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