Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 444-6473354-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stratford Healthcare building
- Town
- Stratford Upon Avon
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Assistant Psychologist to work within Memory Assessment and Community Dementia Services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team. The role will involve providing support to qualified psychologists with psychological assessments and assessing patients presenting with cognitive decline, as part of the dementia assessment process.
The post holder will receive regular supervision and support from psychologists in the service. Clinical psychologists within the service have good links with the Coventry and Warwickshire Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course and the service regularly provides core and specialist placement opportunities for trainee clinical psychologists and trainee counselling psychologists.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Alongside assessments the post holder will be involved in supporting and enhancing the development of groups offered by the wider service, which will involve co-facilitating groups with other psychologists and other clinicians from the MDT. There will also be opportunities to assist with audits and service evaluations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good Honours undergraduate degree in Psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience in psychological difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Experience of working with people preferably within mental health services
- Experience of working as a member of a multidisciplinary team or within a team environment
- Experience of working and liaising with other professional groups
other
Desirable criteria
- Car driver to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Bryony Segger
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01926 339261
- Additional information
Please contact Bryony Segger, Team Manager or Claire Pavlou, Clinical Psychologist to discuss further.
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