Job summary
NSFT Children, Families and Young People's Specialist Services are seeking to recruit a psychology graduate for a full-time assistant psychologist post within our Perinatal Community Mental Health Team. The post is fixed term for 12 months, to cover a period of maternity leave. Applicants must have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, a psychology degree with 2.1 or above and be eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society. Travel is part of the role and being a car driver is essential.
The post is with the Norfolk Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (PCMHT) and is based at Kingfisher House, Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich.
Main duties of the job
The PCMHT offers specialist mental health input to women and their babies antenatally and postnatally. The mothers we work with present with a range of mental health difficulties including depression and anxiety, PTSD, complex trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, bipolar and postpartum psychosis. We cover the whole of Norfolk and Waveney and comprise of a full multi-disciplinary team including medics, nurses, nursery nurses, peer support workers, social workers, occupational therapist and psychological therapists. We also work alongside the Norfolk mother and baby unit, midwives and health visitors in the community and at the hospital, social services and early years services. There are lots of opportunities for multi-disciplinary working and learning about holding both the mother and baby's needs in mind in our work.
The role will involve working within the community team to deliver psychologically informed assessments and interventions, with a focus on short term individual work alongside some opportunities for group work. The post holder would also be responsible for supporting the team to complete routine outcome measures, updating databases and be involved in auditing psychological therapies within the service. All clinical work would be under the guidance and supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist. There would be opportunities for service-related research and audit.
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a service we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologists onto clinical training.
Enthusiasm, inter-personal warmth and experience of working with people are desired attributes. Good data analysis skills are essential.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interviews are planned to take place on Tuesday 10th December 2024.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a service we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologists onto clinical training.
Enthusiasm, inter-personal warmth and experience of working with people are desired attributes. Good data analysis skills are essential.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interviews are planned to take place on Tuesday 10th December 2024.
Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A BPS accredited degree in Psychology.
Skills
Essential
- Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health
- Knowledge of quantitative research.
- High standard of report writing.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
Other
Essential
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to interact with clients with mental health Application Form / Interview / Document Check Page | 8 Generic 2016 problems
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to travel independently.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A BPS accredited degree in Psychology.
Skills
Essential
- Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health
- Knowledge of quantitative research.
- High standard of report writing.
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
Other
Essential
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
- An ability to interact with clients with mental health Application Form / Interview / Document Check Page | 8 Generic 2016 problems
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to travel independently.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
