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INTERNAL ONLY - This post is open to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Employees Only

Interviews will be held on 19 July 2024.

This is a full-time, fixed-term role for an Assistant Psychologist to work within IMPACTT, a specialist Personality Disorder team. Our IMPACTT team includes clinical and counselling psychologists, psychodynamic psychotherapists, CBT, DBT and MBT practitioners and lived experience practitioners. You will be joining one of the treatment teams, delivering either Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). We have lots of interesting service development opportunities alongside a varied clinical role. You will assist in the delivery of groups and the assessment of clients. You will support administrative processes, such as updating RiO, writing clinical notes, audit and service evaluation tasks. You will attend regular group and individual supervision. Training opportunities will be available to you. You will be based at Erlegh House, University of Reading with face-to-face therapy also delivered at the Athena Centre, Slough. The role is carried out face-to-face and remotely using Microsoft Teams. You may need to travel between bases in Berkshire as required.

Main duties of the job

1.    To work under supervision to assist in the delivery of groups in either DBT or MBT and the assessment of clients.

2.  To communicate sensitively and effectively with service users to promote engagement, including those that are harder to reach.

3. To assess/monitor risks and act to manage these in discussion/collaboration with you supervisor or other colleagues to ensure these are appropriately and safely managed. 

4.    To attend regular group and individual supervision.

5. To ensure clinical records, letters, reports, and other data entry requirements are complete, up to date and of a good quality in line with relevant policies and are reviewed by the supervisor before being shared appropriately within the limits of confidentiality.

6.    To assist with audit and other service evaluation tasks.

Working for our organisation

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. 

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

No agencies to contact Berkshire Healthcare directly please.