Assistant Psychologist

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent mental health trust in the UK is seeking an enthusiastic Assistant Psychologist to enhance psychological care for adults with learning disabilities. The successful candidate will perform assessments under the guidance of clinical psychologists and work within a supportive team focused on innovative practices. Join us in our commitment to providing outstanding services that make a difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Innovative clinical practices

Qualifications

• Support psychological care for service users with learning disabilities.
• Undertake assessments and interventions under supervision.
• Engage with diverse psychological approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological services for adults with learning disabilities.
• Work under the supervision of qualified Clinical Psychologists.
• Contribute to innovative research and clinical service development.

Skills

Psychological assessments

Intervention methods

Supervised practice

Education

Psychology graduate

Job description

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic assistant psychologist to work in our psychology service in Bucks.

The team currently consists of two part time Consultant Clinical Psychologists one Principal Clinical Psychologist, two part time Senior Clinical Psychologists, one clinical Psychologist, one Assistant Psychologist and an Honorary Assistant in Psychology, all committed to offering an excellent service to the adults with Learning Disabilities and their families and carers with whom we work.

Our psychology services offer Behavioural and Systemic approaches and psychologists also have expertise in using adapted CBT, CAT, EMDR, AMBIT, Attachment Informed approaches and Psychodynamic models of working.

Psychologists working within the Community LD Health Team provide in-reach input to services users from the community who require an inpatient admission for assessment and treatment of their mental health or challenging behaviours.

We are looking for a psychology graduate to support and enhance the psychological care of service users with learning disabilities receiving support from the HPFT Community LD Health Team (CLDHT). This will include adults living in the community. The post holder will undertake psychological assessments and interventions as appropriate under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist.

The Trust Learning Disability and Forensic Strategic Business Unit (SBU) provides a variety of specialist services in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Norfolk. The Psychological Service plays a major role at all levels of service delivery. We have a strong commitment to personal and continuing professional development and encourage team members to develop specialist expertise which is used to contribute to and/or to lead innovative research and clinical service development initiatives within the SBU and in partnership with other services. We have strong links with two Clinical Psychology Doctoral training courses and have trainees on core and elective placements with us. Members of the service are active in the local SIG, the BPS DCP Faculty of Learning Disability and contribute to teaching, supervising research and marking on the Oxford Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training Course.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

Our Trust Values Are

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Barbara Hurtado Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01494 838261

Please note that Barbara will only be available from 18th August 2025