Educational Psychologist jobs in United Kingdom

Job Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We invite you to join our growing Psychology team. As part of the next phase of our expansion of Psychology provision in our adult community service we are looking for another psychologist at Band 8a, or Band 7 on a Preceptorship, to join City West Mental Health Neighbourhood Team. You would join the Lead Psychologist and other psychological practitioners within the Neighbourhood Team and be part of a wider Psychology team providing you with excellent support and many opportunities for career development.

A Preceptorship is a structured period of transition for the Newly Qualified Practitioner, during which time they are supported by an experienced practitioner to develop their confidence and refine their skills (NHS Employers, 2017). For a recently qualified Psychologist a period of time at Band 7 is an opportunity to consolidate and further develop core practitioner skills. When the relevant developmental objectives are reached the Psychologist will be re-graded to Band 8a starting pay scale salary.

We have a substantial service structure with psychologists in lead roles including directorate level, and pathway leads who are supported by other psychologists at every grade. There are therefore clear career paths for psychologists who join us. In this multidisciplinary setting you will have opportunity to apply and/or hone the breadth of psychology skills, and do so with the support and supervision of a group of experienced and newly trained psychologists that meet regularly for clinical supervision, learning, service development discussion, and peer support. You will be able to choose participation in teaching, training, research, service development, supervision, team supervision, reflective practice and direct clinical work for individuals and groups.

We are happy to talk to or meet you before or after you apply. If you have any questions please contact: Dr Suki Bassey, Lead for Adult Mental Health Community Psychology on Tel. 07917 731398 or Email Suki.Bassey@nhs.net

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

In our multidisciplinary Neighbourhood Teams the successful candidate will work alongside Lead Psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners to help our population through direct and indirect interventions, delivering individual and group interventions, supervising, and making a psychological contribution to the interventions of other professionals in the team.

You will have opportunity to apply and/or hone the breadth of psychology skills and do so with the support and supervision of a group of experienced psychologists that meet regularly for clinical supervision, learning, clinical and service development discussion, and peer support. There will be opportunities to develop yourself through internal and external training programmes (we will train you in EMDR), and to shape our mental health services.

We have strong links to the University of Leicester and you can be involved in teaching, trainee placements, and input to the development of the curriculum. The network of psychologists across LPT range of services will meet regularly to exchange ideas and learning through a forum meeting.

We are committed to LPT being a great place to work and should you choose to join us there are several schemes to support and enhance your well-being and satisfaction. We also look to accommodate you whether you seek full-time, part-time and/or flexible working arrangements

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.