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Assistant Psychologist
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
London Borough of Harrow
On-site
GBP 28,000 - 35,000
Full time
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Job summary
Join the Harrow Psychology team as an Assistant Psychologist, where you’ll actively support trauma-informed care initiatives. This role includes delivering psychological assessments and interventions while collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary team. Ideal for candidates eager to make a significant impact in mental healthcare and develop within a supportive environment.
Benefits
Qualifications
- First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
- Experience with psychological assessment and treatment.
- Knowledge of diversity issues in mental health.
Responsibilities
- Support delivery of trauma-informed psychological interventions.
- Assist psychologists with clinical materials and training.
- Conduct psychological assessments for clients.
Skills
Education
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Job Overview
The Harrow Psychology team is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for two new Assistant Psychologists to join the adult Community Mental Health Hub at Bentley House. We provide a holistic range of multi-disciplinary interventions to adults experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties and Assistant Psychologists play an integral role in supporting with the delivery of ‘Step 2’ psychological therapies.
Job Overview
The Harrow Psychology team is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for two new Assistant Psychologists to join the adult Community Mental Health Hub at Bentley House. We provide a holistic range of multi-disciplinary interventions to adults experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties and Assistant Psychologists play an integral role in supporting with the delivery of ‘Step 2’ psychological therapies.
Central and North West London Trust is pioneering in its Trauma-Informed Approach (TIA) which focuses on Power Threat Meaning Framework Team Formulation, manualised stabilisation interventions and staff training. Over the last year, our CMHH has rolled-out TIA, and the Assistant Psychologists will play an important role in the ongoing development of this work. This project builds on Harrow’s innovative TIA work in its acute services over the last six years, which has been recently published (Nikopaschos et al. 2023) and is now also influencing National Policy (see NHSE Guidelines for Acute Inpatient Mental Health Care for Adults and Older Adults, 2023).
If you are passionate about supporting the delivery of innovative psychologically-informed care, come and join our established team of psychologists and assistant psychologists, with a diverse range of expertise. You must have a strong commitment to teamwork, an interest in supporting the ongoing development of the psychology service, and to work sensitively within a culturally diverse environment.
Main duties of the job
The following is a summary of some of the main roles and responsibilities for the Assistant Psychologist position at Harrow CMHH. It is not an exhaustive list, please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Assistant Psychologists play an integral role in supporting with the delivery of ‘Step 2’ psychological interventions and will join a team committed to trauma-informed psychological care, integrated across this system.
The post holder(s) will support the Clinical Psychologist with the Psychology waitlist.
The post holder(s) will support the delivery of both individual and group evidenced based trauma informed psychological interventions.
The post holder(s) will support with the preparation and delivery of trauma-informed training and Team Formulation to multi-disciplinary professionals.
The post holder(s) will work closely with the full range of multi-disciplinary professionals, including psychiatry, and occupational therapy as well as attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings.
The post holder(s) will work under the supervision of a clinical psychologist for all pieces of work they undertake, and will join an expanding therapies team, committed to providing trauma-informed psychological care, integrated across this system.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted that you are interested in working with us here at CNWL. At CNWL, we work in collaboration with our multidisciplinary colleagues and value the lived experiences of both our staff and service users.
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
With us, you will get:
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
Flexible working.
Variety of work.
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
- To provide psychological assessments and formulation for clients in the Adult Community Mental Health Hub (CMHH) at Bentley House in Harrow under the close supervision of a practitioner psychologist.
- To provide protocol based individual psychological interventions for clients experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties at ‘Step 2’, including manualised psychological Stabilisation.
- To arrange, schedule and provide protocol-based group psychological interventions for clients experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties at ‘Step 2’.
- To assist the psychologists in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials.
- To contribute to the effective working of the Adult Community Mental Health Harrow Hub (CMHH) by supporting with the psychology waitlist, attending MDT where applicable, supporting co-facilitators to deliver PTMF Team Formulation and Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) staff training.
- To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
- To participate in the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
- To follow policies and procedures in own area of work
- To participate in the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.
- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
- To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting supplies as needed.
- To be responsible for safe-keeping of equipment and confidential clinical materials.
- To participate in demonstrating work methods to newly recruited Assistant Psychologists and to support their development of necessary skills.
- To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations or published articles.
- To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
- Under the supervision of the practitioner psychologist to maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
- To maintain data bases and enter data, and perform analyses and produce reports.
- To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform the service Psychologist and others in the development of Trust psychology and other services, training provision and research activities.
- To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.
- To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in the development in the Trust of evidence-based practice.
- Under guidance to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision
- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines
- To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post-holder is employed.
- To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
- To undertake personal training relevant to the post in agreement with the supervising psychologist and the manager.
- Your base will predominantly be at Bentley House. Some travel may be required occasionally where appropriate to service users’ homes (in Harrow) or Northwick Park Hospital.
- To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management
- To respond appropriately and professionally to high levels of distress and to support others involved in such situations.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A First-class or Upper-second-class Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society and confers the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society.
- Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
Essential criteria
- Sufficient post-graduate experience of psychological assessment and treatment of adult clients with severe and enduring mental health difficulties with close direct supervision.
- Post-graduate experience of conducting research projects or audits.
- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
- The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable and recognise the positive impact this experience can have on the work we do.
- At least one year paid post-graduate work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities
Essential criteria
- Graduate level knowledge of psychological research methodology and statistical analysis.
- Good theoretical knowledge of the problems experienced by and the needs of Adults with severe and enduring mental health needs and of methods of assessment and treatment.
- Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training.
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- An understanding of Trauma Informed Approaches (TIA) and Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF).
Essential criteria
- Skills in relevant psychological assessment and interventions that enable working as a pre-qualified practitioner with close clinical supervision.
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, information to clients, families and colleagues.
- Skills in providing supporting teaching and training provided by psychologists or others to other professional groups.
- Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data.
- High standard of report writing.
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team, participating in effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Ability to identify and follow relevant clinical governance procedures.
- Ability to maintain concentration and to remain in restricted positions for long periods during observations, assessments and psychological interventions
- Ability to manage occasional emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
- Ability to communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to people who may have impediments to understanding.
- Ability to manage verbal abuse and hostility directed at self.
- Ability to manage physical aggression directed at self, including use of physical interventions as prescribed by Trust policies
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Seniority levelEntry level
- Employment typeFull-time
- Job functionHealth Care Provider
- IndustriesHospitals and Health Care
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