Assistant Psychologist

We are looking to recruit a motivated and dynamic Assistant Psychologist across our North East and North West Adult Community Mental Health Teams in the Central Norfolk Locality

This posts will suit enthusiastic and motivated psychology graduates, ideally with post graduate clinical experience in the NHS, who can show an ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team and passionate about the contribution of a psychological approach to multi-disciplinary care. Prior experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties would be an advantage, or evidence of significant transferrable skills.

You will be part of a friendly and supportive clinical psychology and psychological therapies team, and there will good opportunities for professional development.

The post holder will be responsible for providing time limited, focused psychological interventions, including co-facilitating group sessions, and work in a psychologically informed way alongside other members of the psychology team and wider MDT. There will be opportunities to contribute to team training and reflective practice, as well as involvement in service-related audits and evaluation relevant to service needs, under the supervision of a qualified member of staff.

The successful candidate will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, good organisational skills, and the ability to build positive working relationships with service users and colleagues.

We have close relationships with the Clinical Psychology Doctorate training course at the University of East Anglia and routinely offer placements to trainee clinical psychologists. We also have an excellent research department in the Trust.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or 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.

You will join a supportive and proactive psychology team embedded within the wider CMHT and complex emotional needs pathway. A range of specialist skills and interests are represented in the psychology teams, including working with personality difficulties, trauma and dissociation, psychosis, CBT, MBT, CAT, EMDR, and art psychotherapy etc.

Please note that this vacancy may close ahead of the published expiry date so an early application will ensure that you dont miss out on this opportunity.

Main responsibilities to include:

Psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate under close supervision of a clinical psychologist

Co-facilitating psychologically informed groups

Contributing to the practice of psychologically informed interventions within the team via teaching and developing resources

Contributing to service development projects

Evaluating outcomes and writing reports

You will have:

A BPS Accredited degree 2:1 or above in Psychology and Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) eligibility.

Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties preferably in the NHS.

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!

For the first 250-300 words of your personal statement please explain why you are interested in working within the Adult Community Mental Health Team specifically.

Your application may not be accepted if this essential element is not included.

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• A BPS accredited degree in Psychology.

• Experience of research.
• Experience of research in the NHS.

• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
• Knowledge of mental health.
• Knowledge of quantitative research
• 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.

• Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows
• Ability to…