Assistant Psychologist - Community Mental Health

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join our Isle of Wight Community Mental Health Team, and support with the delivery of high quality psychological provision within the service.

The team provides a service for adults with a range of complex mental health problems. Psychological therapies provide a range of interventions, including both individual and group based work.

In this role you will work as an applied practitioner under clinical supervision of the Clinical Psychologist, contributing to assessment and intervention plans for service users.

You will contribute to supporting the wider CMHT through involvement in group work, training workshops, team audits and service development projects.

In addition, you will assist in managing waiting lists and maintaining regular contact with people waiting for psychological therapies.

For more information on the role, please contact Dr Emma Price (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on

To assist in the provision of a psychological service to service users accessing the community mental health team under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist.

To plan and prioritise of own workload and activities following the direction, guidelines and supervision of the Clinical Psychologist.

To undertake assessments and implement programmes of care and psychology intervention, including one to one work with clients, group interventions and psycho-educational workshops under clinical supervision.

To work within the guidelines given by the clinical supervisor and assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit/research projects and teaching projects as directed by the Clinical Psychologist.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert.

The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

• An upper second class honours degree or higher in Psychology.
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
• Prior experience as an assistant psychologist, a research assistant or as an HCA or equivalent in mental health is desirable.
• Knowledge of IT systems, research design and methodology.
• Full driving licence.

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

We are an equal opportunities employer.