Assistant Psychologist | NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

We would like to recruit a full time equivalent Assistant Psychologist to join the Bolton Community Learning Disability Team. You will join a friendly, committed, and knowledgeable multi-disciplinary team providing support to learning disabled adults in Bolton. Psychology is a valued discipline within the team, and you will be supervised by qualified and experienced clinical psychologists to complete assessment, intervention and evaluation work with learning disabled adults presenting with psychological distress and behaviours of concern.

You will work collaboratively with other disciplines within the team, as well as families and service providers, to deliver high quality, compassionate, person centred care. You will support our teams eligibility process and contribute to the management of the psychology workload. There are also opportunities to contribute to service development initiatives, consultation, and professional development activities. This role offers a genuine chance to gain experience that will help you progress your career in psychology.

• Complete standardised assessments including the WAIS-IV, ABAS and other measures of psychological functioning and wellbeing as required.
• Autism screening assessments with people and their families/carers and prepare psychological reports and letters.
• Contribute to the services eligibility process, including direct assessment with people and their carers, attendance and feedback of information at clinical meetings, and management of the eligibility waiting list.
• Support the management of the psychology workload, including reviewing people on the waiting list, contributing to psychology referral meetings, and prioritising cases for allocation.
• Work directly with people and their families/carers to complete psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation.
• Contribute to service development initiatives and research best practice to support the work of the team.
• Support other members of the learning disability team to develop a psychologically-informed understanding of presenting issues.

• Experience completing standardised assessments and producing psychological reports.
• Skills to complete autism screening assessments and communicate findings to people, families, and professionals.
• Ability to support eligibility processes, participate in clinical meetings, and manage waiting lists.
• Experience in workload management and prioritisation of cases for allocation.
• Willingness to contribute to service development initiatives and stay informed on best practice.

The Community Learning Disability Team is an integrated team of health and social care professionals, working in partnership to provide high quality assessment, interventions and support to adults with a learning disability. We are a supportive and friendly team with a shared values base that recognises and promotes the individual qualities and achievements of those we support.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the employer"s Disability Confident pages.