Job summary
- Main area
- adult mental health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 301-KM-24-6479873
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Severn Field's Health Village
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
This position is for a senior assistant psychologist with the Shrewsbury West & Rural CMHS.
The team work with individuals with a varying degree of mental illnesses with adults in the community offering key working, assessment and risk management and working closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
The team consists of several different disciplines including nurses, occupational therapists, social worker, medics, non-medical prescribers, psychologists, support workers and a nursing associate.
The successful applicant for this post will require substantial experience as an assistant psychologist and a capability of working with some complex cases and challenging situations.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Main duties of the job
To support the systematic provision of brief psychological therapeutic interventions.
The post-holder will contribute to this developing role; including using outcome measures and evaluating the service. The post-holder will support Leads and other practitioners.
The post-holder will work with the multi-disciplinary team and will assist with clinically related administration.
The post-holder will use research skills for audit and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
The post-holder will compile and disseminate relevant resources.
The post holder will promote and maintain good working relationships with clients and other external agencies.
The post-holder will receive regular (weekly) clinical professional supervision from senior qualified psychologists in the service.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist, undertake assessments of personality, beliefs, attitudes, behaviour, emotional function, other relevant psychological characteristics and dimensions and factors relevant to the development, maintenance and understanding of the client’s difficulties. This may be using standardised psychometric instruments, protocol based assessment tools, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and structured and semi-structured interviews as required. Utilises assessment techniques directly with clients and collects information from family members and others involved in the client’s care as appropriate.
2. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, assists in the formulation of the client’s difficulties and in the planning and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of the client’s problems in community and in-patient/residential settings.
3. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, delivers therapeutic interventions developed or guided by the qualified psychologist or otherwise defined by protocol, for individual clients and for families, including, for example, planned programmes of CBT or other appropriate psychological interventions.
4. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist, assists in the planning, development, coordination and delivery of therapeutic groups, including for example group approaches to the management of anxiety, stress, psycho-educational groups for carers and other protocol based group interventions. Acts as co-therapist with qualified psychologist, other Assistant Psychologist or other designated clinician and as appropriate runs group in accordance with agreed protocol.
5. Assists in the promotion a psychologically informed approach to the understanding and management of the problems and needs of all clients within the service area covered.
6. Under the clinical supervision and guidance of a qualified psychologist, collaborates with other members of the MDT in case and care reviews.
7. Attends and contributes to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings, providing a psychological perspective or psychological information in conjunction with or on behalf of the qualified psychologist who supervises their practice.
8. To support the team with shift co rota a minimum of twice a month, this involves talking to distressed people and helping to alleviate their distress or if necessary escalate to other teams.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- A First or Upper Second honours degree in psychology OR a lower class with a post-graduate qualification e.g.: Masters degree.
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, autism, personality disorder and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people in a clinical or other supportive environment
- Significant experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
- significant experience of working as an assistant psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Understanding and experience of working with people who have experienced trauma.
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings and multi-agency settings.
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
- Hannah Corfield
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 3426
- Additional information
Clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Bigglestone
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