Higher Assistant Psychologist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Higher Assistant Psychologist for Moor Croft the older peoples functional admission ward based at Foss Park, York. Foss Park which is a new, purpose built mental health hospital. This is a full-time, permanent position.

The successful applicant must have a good honours degree in psychology. Experience of working with older adults is essential for this post, as is experience of working on inpatient wards. Experience of developing and co-delivering therapeutic groups is required as this will form part of the assistant psychologist role. Co-delivering training to staff will also form part of the role and so strong presentation skills and an ability to engage the target audience is required. You must be motivated, possess excellent communication skills and have the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy's Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work closely with the full-time HCPC registered consultant clinical psychologist. The applicant will receive regular clinical supervision from the consultant clinical psychologist. We provide excellent opportunities for peer support/supervision, CPD, teaching/training, and research and audit in line with strategic developments. There are also strong links to the local Teesside Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme and York St Johns Doctorate in Counselling Psychology Programme, as we are key providers of academic and clinical experience components both in terms of teaching and supervision.

The role involves: -

• Taking client histories and carrying out structured and unstructured psychological assessment under the supervision of the qualified psychologist.
• Delivering trauma informed psychological wellbeing interventions in line with a clients' care plan and reporting the progress of interventions to the qualified psychologist for further consideration
• Delivering ward-based group sessions
• Feeding back to members of the multidisciplinary team about client's distress and interventions carried out with them.
• Attending MDT meetings as appropriate (e.g. formulation and discharge meetings).

About us

We are geographically one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country with an annual income of £423m and a workforce of over 7,500 staff operating from around 160 sites. Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and learning disability services for the people of County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby, serving a population of around 2 million people. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with 8 local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public. The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural and industrial areas.

The most important way we will get there is by living our values all of the time. These are:

• Respect - listening, inclusive, working in partnership
• Compassion - kind, supporting, recognising and celebrating
• Responsibility - honest, learning, ambitious

The Trust is committed to providing support and supervision for continuing professional development and we have an excellent track record for developing our psychology workforce.