Assistant Psychologist

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking Band 4 Assistant Psychologists to join a developing Dialectical Behaviour Service in Exeter. This full-time role will focus on providing psychological support to adolescents with mental health difficulties, working alongside a committed team of clinicians. Candidates should have relevant experience and qualifications related to psychological health and social care.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children & adolescents in clinical settings.
• High standard of report writing and research engagement.

Responsibilities

• Broaden depth of psychological knowledge and experience.
• Direct clinical work and research & evaluation.
• Deliver evidence-based practice in a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Emotional and mental health support

Research and audit engagement

Clinical report writing

Education

Bachelor Degree at Honours level

Postgraduate training in professional psychology

Job description

Please note that this vacancy may close early due to the volume of applicants received.

Do you have a passion for working with adolescents and their families who are struggling with significant mental health difficulties? Would you like experience of working in a supportive and innovative team working across Devon? Are you already an Assistant Psychologist looking to broaden your knowledge and experience as a stepping stone into your Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology? Or are you a looking for your first role as an Assistant Psychologist following BSc/ MSc study?

We are pleased to be advertising for Band 4 Assistant Psychologists to join us at an exciting time of development of our Dialectical Behaviour Service (DBT) within the Mood, Emotions, and Relationships pathway. These are county-wide roles with a requirement to travel to our three locality bases in CFHD (Torbay, Exeter & Barnstable).

The posts will be an ideal opportunity for practitioners looking to develop their knowledge and skills alongside a highly specialised and committed team of clinicians delivering full programme DBT to a group of young people (14-18 yrs) within a specialist CAMHS provision.

This post is full time (1.0 wte) for 1 year.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

We will ensure that this role offers you the opportunity to:

• broaden depth of psychological knowledge and experience
• Supervised by clinical psychologist
• Direct clinical work
• Research & evaluation
• Delivery of evidence-based practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Gain experience in working with adolescents who have emotional & behavioural dysregulation disorders
• Gain experience in adapting psychological interventions for young people with Neurodiversity
• Gain experience in a wide range of psychological difficulties such as depression, self-harm, anxiety, eating difficulties, and trauma.
• Opportunities to develop skills in group work with appropriate training. This may involve working into late afternoon/early evening e.g. 5-6.30 pm
• Gain greater CAMHS experience with complex cases linking with the different Mental Health pathways including Urgent Care, Eating Disorders and Neurodiversity
• Opportunities to work within a service improvement, redesign and clinical effectiveness process

We are looking for people who can support the running of our skills groups, work alongside the clinical team delivering therapy, and Clinical and Management Leads to deliver a high-quality service across CFHD. Assistant Psychologists are highly valued in our service, and we are committed to providing you with a valuable experience towards career progression.

About us

Successful applicants will be employed byDevon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )

Children and Family Health Devon(CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improvehealth outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;

Torbay and South Devon FT

CFHD provides integrated care andtreatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure wedeliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of ourservices, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with ourservice users and communities.

Our integrated care and treatmenthas been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people andtheir families/carers.

Wewould like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to beunderstanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make usfeel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills andexperience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment thatis informal and without pressure.

Job responsibilities

FullVacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/PersonSpecification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supportinginformation from the role requirements or person specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience in working with children, young people and families.
• Experience of working with children and young people with emotional and mental health difficulties, in a clinical or healthcare environment and / or community-based setting

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.
• The post holder must demonstrate a commitment to research and engage in a programme of research activity and audit as required.
• Ability to translate basic psychological theory to clinical populations in a clinical setting.
• High standard of report writing

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree at Honours level, giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
• Further postgraduate training in relevant area of professional psychology, health and social care practice and/or research design and analysis.

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.