Assistant Clinical Psychologist

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Newcastle-under-Lyme; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing opportunities

Job summary

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is hiring a part-time Band 5 Assistant Clinical Psychologist to join the Newcastle CMHT. The role involves supporting group treatment interventions, service evaluation, and working under supervision to deliver 1-1 skills work and assessments.

You will prepare clients for groups, manage communications, gather data, and contribute to audits and research projects while benefiting from flexible working options offered by the Trust.

Responsibilities

• Assist in operational delivery of group treatment interventions and service evaluation for service users within the CMHT.
• Prepare patients for groups via emails, phone calls and letters and share expectations of the group programme.
• Support patients to complete questionnaires pre and post intervention, collate results and prepare service evaluation reports.
• Complete assessment, formulation and 1-1 skills work under supervision.
• Work independently to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist.
• Assist in clinically related administration, audits and projects, collect statistics, develop audit/research projects, teaching and project work.

Job description

The Newcastle CMHT are looking to recruit a part-time, Band 5 Assistant Clinical Psychologist to join their multi-disciplinary team.

The successful postholders will:

Assist in the operational delivery of group treatment interventions and service evaluation for service users within the CMHT. The post-holder will work under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist, often independently under their direction.

Be expected to prepare patients in their readiness to start groups via communication through emails, phone calls and letters and to share expectations of the group programme. The post holder will also ensure and support patients to complete questionnaires pre and post intervention, collate the results and prepare service evaluation reports.

Be required to work with clients who are highly distressed, anxious or hostile and will experience sensitive situations on a weekly basis

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also complete assessment, formulation and 1-1 skills work under supervision.

Working independently to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist.

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits and projects, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.