Assistant Psychologist

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

We are recruiting for an Assistant Psychologist to join our psychology team within the adult learning disability service for a fixed term contract for 12 months for 30 hours per week.

The service is a friendly and well established multi-disciplinary team. You will have weekly supervision from a Clinical Psychologist within the team. You will support the psychology team by working both directly with people with learning disabilities and indirectly with families and carers whilst working collaboratively with colleagues to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities. There is a strong ethos of multi-disciplinary working and trauma informed care. There will be the opportunity to support service developments within the team. You will be supported to develop professionally in your career and have access to CPD within the department and more broadly within Bradford District Care Trust.

Closing date: 10th April 2025

Shortlisting date: 11th April 2025

Interview date: TBC

To provide supervised support to the psychological therapy service and wider team across the range of provision.

Under The Supervision Of a Qualified Practitioner Psychologist

1. Conduct psychological assessments, including neuropsychological assessments.
2. Develop psychological formulations for individual service users that contribute towards the overall assessment of their care needs, using an appropriate theoretical framework.
3. Collaboratively establish individual service user’s goals towards recovery.
4. Deliver psychological interventions to service users; CBT informed structured interventions, cognitive remediation, guided self-help, co-facilitated group work.
5. Support the audit and research activities of the service.
6. Support the psychological therapy services through data collection & analysis as part of audit, service evaluation and research initiatives.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

1. Increase mileage rates for > 3500
2. A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
3. A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
4. Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Henry Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: [e-mail]