Job summary
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed Assistant Psychologist to join the West Norfolk Youth Service, based at Thurlow House in Kings Lynn.
This is an innovative service offering assessment and treatment of young people aged between 14 and 25 years with a variety of complex mental health needs. We are looking for psychology graduates with previous Assistant Psychologist or relevant clinical experience who are interested in working with young people with emotional and mental health difficulties, who can be compassionate, thoughtful and have the ability to apply psychological theory to their work.
Weekly supervision for this post will be provided by a clinical psychologist within the team. We have good links with the University of East Anglia (UEA) Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programme with previous post holders having been accepted onto the clinical doctorate and regularly have Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement.
We request that as part of your application you answer the following question in 500 words or less at the beginning of the supporting information section on your application form:
“What impact do you think the experience of mental health difficulties would have on a young person?”
**Please note that applications that do not follow these guidelines will not be considered for shortlisting**
Main duties of the job
Within this role the post holder will have the opportunity to help assess, formulate and deliver a range of psychological interventions to young people and families across this age range, as well as opportunities for delivering both group and family interventions. Working as part of the MDT this role will involve working with staff to offer psychologically informed care, develop psychological formulations as well as supporting the wider team with undertaking routine outcome measures and reporting on these outcomes.
Further responsibilities of this post will be conducting reviews alongside Clinical Psychologists within the team, supporting the wider psychological therapies team and supporting with monitoring of clients on waiting lists. There will also be the opportunity to be involved in service evaluation.
Working for our organisation
It is important to us that all staff share our values and core beliefs, and those of the NHS Constitution. If you want to work in an environment of mutual respect, compassion, integrity and collaborative working, then we are the team for you.
We are an improving Trust, with ambitious aspirations and we are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work.
Why Norfolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, we have a beautiful coastline and the Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working within Youth mental health can be a challenging yet rewarding environment. As such, we are looking for someone with a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, who is reflective and uses clinical supervision effectively, and importantly is a good team player.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
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For further details please contact Mark Hennessy on 01553 736011
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A BPS accredited degree in Psychology
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of quantitative research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research in the NHS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues
- Presentation skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental health
- Knowledge of quantitative research
- High standard of report writing
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities
- An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
- Ability to travel independently
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
- Mark Hennessy
- Job title
- Community Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01553 736011
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