Assistant Psychologist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust seeks an Assistant Psychologist to provide structured treatment and support for individuals facing drug and alcohol difficulties. The successful candidate will engage in psychosocial interventions and participate in service development, utilizing their psychology background to enhance clinical governance and research efforts.

Qualifications

• An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology is essential.
• Previous clinical or research experience in psychology is required.
• Experience using microcomputers for data analysis, especially Excel.

Responsibilities

• Undertake psychosocial interventions and workshops for clients.
• Assist in service development projects and contribute to audits.
• Collect data using validated questionnaires and carry out practice-based research.

Skills

High level communication skills

Data analysis

Motivational interviewing

Education

Upper second class honours degree in psychology

Tools

Microsoft Office

SPSS

Job description

Job Overview

ARCH (Addictions Recovery Centre Hillingdon) is well established partnership service between CNWL and Via. We provide structured treatment and support for people with drug and alcohol difficulties.

Job Overview

ARCH (Addictions Recovery Centre Hillingdon) is well established partnership service between CNWL and Via. We provide structured treatment and support for people with drug and alcohol difficulties.

RISE (Recovery Interventions Service Ealing) is a well established partnership service between Change Grow Live, CNWL and Build on Belief. It provides structured treatment and support for people with drug and alcohol difficulties in Ealing.

To enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing data collection, data analysis, and assessment under the management and supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

To participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary Drug and Alcohol team.

Main duties of the job

Clinical

To undertake Psychosocial Inventions and Workshops of clients referred to the Drug and Alcohol Service. This may include using motivational interviewing techniques, self-report measures, risk assessment, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. Providing evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT to help people overcome their addiction).

To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with clients with substance use problems on a regular basis, and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times. May be subject to verbal aggression in individual sessions.

To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups, under the supervision of a qualified member of staff.

Duty assessments in ARCH may require testing of bodily fluids, and therefore direct contact with urine and / or saliva.

Management, recruitment and service development

To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.

To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.

The post holder will be required to attend and contribute, where appropriate, to the regular professional meetings of the Adult Psychology Specialty and other Departmental meetings.

Working for our organisation

This is a unique opportunity to work in the ARCH /RISE team and work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers.

We believe that the best health is delivered by multidisciplinary teams working well together in partnerships with other teams and services to provide seamless care.

We have been offering assessments, BBV testing, harm minimisation, psychoeducation and motivational support delivered in a holistic manner to dual diagnosis clients, rough sleepers and service users in the criminal justice pathway.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES (Research and Clinical Governance)

• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work.
• To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects on a regular basis in order to help develop and improve service provision. This may include complex audits / service evaluation using qualitative or quantitative methods.
• To undertake production of questionnaires, data collection, setting up of databases and spreadsheets, data analysis, and the production of reports and presentation of summaries to colleagues using IT and statistical programmes, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SPSS.
• To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research using the internet and online databases e.g. Psych info, to assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other multi-disciplinary team members.
• To carry-out practice-based research using validated questionnaires, reflective scientist practitioner skills, etc, as routine
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/ or research design and analysis.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous clinical or research experience in the field of psychology.
• Post-graduate work with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post-graduate research experience
  
  

Knowledge & Skills

Essential criteria

• Experience using microcomputers for databases or data-analysis, especially excel for Windows.
• High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
• High standard of report writing
  
  

PERSONAL

Essential criteria

• An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines. An ability to interact with people with mental health problems disabilities.
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• An interest in working with people with mental health problems or other disabilities.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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