Assistant psychologist

Job summary

The Kernow Workforce Wellbeing Hub (KWWH) is looking for two highly motivated individuals with excellent communication skills to help our service support the needs of the Cornwall health and social care workforce.

This KWWH is a trailblazing service formed under the new Cornwall and Isles of Scilly wide Integrated Care System. We are a small but dedicated psychology team tasked with providing mental health wellbeing support to staff and colleagues through our 9-5 support line, outreach interventions and assessment service.

Innovation and new ways of working are key to our team approach and our aim to provide all team members with the opportunity to contribute and develop in a supportive environment.

This post will initially involve working from home but will then move to a hybrid working model based in Bodmin.

Interviews will be held on the 27th and 29th of June.

For more information, please see the job description and person specification.

Main duties of the job

The key purpose of this role is to support health and social care staff across the Cornwall Integrated Care System (ICS) who experience psychological distress or symptoms of trauma as a consequence of ongoing or exceptional work pressure and stressors.

The post holder will support staff to enable them to address the impacts that this may have had upon their functioning and enable them to get access to appropriate input in relation to their wellbeing. Specifically, the role will include:

o Being responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of health and social care staff across Cornwall ICS.

o Under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist:

o Providing psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention to individuals or groups.

o Assisting in clinically related administration, teaching, and project work.

o Assisting in the collection of data, the development of service evaluation/audit and/or research projects

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.