Job summary
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust is pleased to advertise this 1.0 WTE Band 5 Assistant Psychologist post, fixed term for 12 months. This post may become a permanent post 12 months.
The post is situated in our Community Assessment Stabilisation and Treatment Team (CASTT) and will provide input into our expanding Complex Emotional Needs pathway. You will be supported by our Principal and Consultant Clinical Psychologists within our service and an Assistant Psychologist working as part of a warm, passionate and trauma-informed multi-disciplinary provision.
Your role will be to support us to implement a new service delivery model of structured clinical management group treatment programmes within our CAST team and across our 4 CMHTs. You will be expected to prepare patients in their readiness to start treatment via communication through emails, phone calls and a pre-treatment group whereby details and expectations of the group programme will be shared. You will also ensure and support patients to complete questionnaires pre and post intervention, track their progress across the treatment programme, liaise with their care team and collate results and prepare service evaluation reports. There are opportunities to assist in delivering on-line group.
Main duties of the job
You will engage in weekly team supervision sessions alongside your own individual clinical supervision. We are a virtual team and we support hybrid, agile and flexible working approaches in line with our service delivery model.
As an Assistant psychologist within the team you will be encouraged to promote strong working relationships across our services and be supported to develop your own skills and areas of interest as well as being provided with opportunities for further training and CPD.
Our wider team comprises of a supportive Team Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist, Mental Health Practitioners and Peer Support Workers who are all trained in and deliver either SCM, MBT, or both. We prioritise staff wellbeing as an integral component of our offer to service users, and we would welcome someone who can work with us in the ongoing delivery of a psychologically safe team.
About us
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assist in the operational delivery of group treatment interventions and service evaluation for the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway. The post-holder will work under the supervision of the Principal Clinical Psychologist, often independently under their direction.
- The post holder will be expected to prepare patients in their readiness to start treatment via communication through emails, phone calls and a pre-treatment group whereby details and expectations of the group programme are shared. The post holder will also ensure and support patients to complete questionnaires pre and post intervention, collate the results and prepare service evaluation reports.
- The post holder may be required to work with clients who are highly distressed, anxious or hostile and will experience sensitive situations on a weekly basis. The client group will include people with a range of complex emotional needs.
- Working independently to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To assist in the operational delivery of group treatment interventions and service evaluation for the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway. The post-holder will work under the supervision of the Principal Clinical Psychologist, often independently under their direction.
- The post holder will be expected to prepare patients in their readiness to start treatment via communication through emails, phone calls and a pre-treatment group whereby details and expectations of the group programme are shared. The post holder will also ensure and support patients to complete questionnaires pre and post intervention, collate the results and prepare service evaluation reports.
- The post holder may be required to work with clients who are highly distressed, anxious or hostile and will experience sensitive situations on a weekly basis. The client group will include people with a range of complex emotional needs.
- Working independently to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A first or upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work with people with mental health problems or disabilities, or other relevant problems or disabilities (e.g. learning disabilities, organic impairment).
Knowledge
Essential
- High level of interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to work and effectively communicate complex or sensitive information in highly emotive and emotionally charged settings involving conflict and significant personal distress.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A first or upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
Experience
Essential
- Experience of work with people with mental health problems or disabilities, or other relevant problems or disabilities (e.g. learning disabilities, organic impairment).
Knowledge
Essential
- High level of interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to work and effectively communicate complex or sensitive information in highly emotive and emotionally charged settings involving conflict and significant personal distress.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
