Assistant Psychologist

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Cwmbran; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

A renowned health organization in Cwmbran is looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Psychologist to join their Learning Disability Intensive Community Support Team. This part-time role offers an opportunity to contribute to psychological assessments, training, and research under the supervision of experienced professionals. A good honours degree in Psychology and excellent communication skills are essential for success in this role, which is a fixed-term position for 12 months.

Benefits

Flexible working

Paid mandatory training

Occupational health support

Qualifications

• Good organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Competence in research skills.

Responsibilities

• Undertake psychological assessments and interventions under supervision.
• Support team in teaching and training.
• Contribute to clinically relevant research and audit.
• Carry out other duties as agreed with the Clinical Psychologist.

Skills

Competent IT skills

Ability to communicate complex information

Ability to work independently

Able to undertake Positive Behaviour Management training

Education

Good honours degree in Psychology (First or Second Class)

Eligibility for Graduate Membership of the BPS

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative individual to work within our Learning Disability Intensive Community Support (ICS) Team. This service supports individuals who present with significant behaviours that challenge and / or have complex mental health difficulties.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain wide and valuable experience within a multi-disciplinary team. As part of your role, you will support the ICS team members to undertake psychological assessments and interventions, teaching activities, clinically relevant research, service development and audit.

All your work will be supervised by a Clinical Psychologist. The successful candidate would be expected to have a good honours degree in Psychology, excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, a good standard of computer literacy and be competent in research skills.

There are regular opportunities to have contact with other Clinical Psychology colleagues within the organisation and we have close links with the South Wales Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology, regularly providing teaching and clinical placements.

This post is fixed term for 12 months to meet the needs for the service.

If you are interested in applying for this as a secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current linemanager prior to applying for this post.

Main duties of the job

To support and enhance the psychological input to service users within the Intensive Community Support (ICS) Team. Key responsibilities will include:

• Undertaking psychological assessments and interventions under the supervision of the ICS Clinical Psychologist.
• Supporting the ICS Clinical Psychologist and other ICS team members to undertake teaching and training.
• Supporting the ICS Clinical Psychologists and other ICS team members to undertake clinically relevant research, service evaluation and audit.
• To carry out other duties as agreed with the ICS Clinical Psychologist and Team Management.

This is a part-time post. Your hours of duty will largely be within 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday but you may need to work early mornings, evenings or weekends.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

As part of this application, you will be expected to write a short essay, within your supporting information of no more than 250 words.

Please answer the question and clearly write your answer at the start of your supporting information: What does a team gain by having an Assistant Psychologist as one of the key team members?

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac

Person Specification

Other

• Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the service

Skills

• Competent IT skills, for example statistical packages, Excel and Word.
• Ability to communicate (verbally and written) complex information to a range of stakeholders in an accessible manner
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with agreed goals that are reviewed regularly
• Able to undertake Positive Behaviour Management physical interventions training

Experience

• Previous work as an Assistant Psychologist.
• Experience working with people with a disability / learning disability / or who engage in behaviours of concern.
• Experience of functioning effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience working within the Positive Behaviour Support framework

Qualifications

• Good honours degree in Psychology (First or Second Class).
• Eligibility for Graduate Membership of the BPS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£31,516 to £38,364 a yearper annum, pro rata