Assistant Psychologist - Band 5

Job summary

Band 5 Assistant Psychologists - Primary Care Mental Health

Full time

Are you looking foran assistant psychology post that will provide you with new opportunities and experience?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to permanent full-time experienced Assistant Psychologists to support the partnership and collaboration of primary and secondary mental health care across Coventry and Warwickshire. There will be the opportunity to work within a designated PCN across our Coventry locality.

We recognise that placing specialist mental health staff in GP practices and promoting early assessment, treatment and interventions in a recovery focused way will help people with mental health problems achieve the best possible outcomes.

The NHS Long term Plan Community mental health transformation is a national movement supported by NHS England, with a huge amount of investment at a local level to improve the delivery of mental health care in local communities. The transformation project across Coventry and Warwickshire brings together health, social care, voluntary and community sector organisations and our strategy is coproduced between experts by experience and experts by training.

Please note many Trust interviews take place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.

Main duties of the job

Our Assistant Psychologists will provide psychological interventions to a wide range of adults presenting within primary care with mental health needs. You will be part of a mental health approach which will be multiagency, ensuring the wider determinants of mental health are considered as part of the service users' formulation. You will offer psychological assessment, formulation, and brief therapeutic intervention, using evidence-based programmes that may be individual or group based under the supervision of an experienced qualified clinical psychologist.

You will receive regular supervision from an experienced clinical psychologist and will be line managed by an experienced senior healthcare professional.

As an organisation we are committed to co-production and delivering trauma informed care and welcome applications from people who share our aspirations to deliver services that are informed by our users and considerate of the impact of trauma within our healthcare community.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.