Assistant Psychologist

We would love you to join our CQC rated ‘Outstanding’ Trust, joining a ground-breaking but friendly and caring Mental Health Community Services. Are you solution-focused, inquisitive and self-motivated? Do you enjoy working as part of a team? Are you eager to build on your experience to apply your psychological knowledge and interests and develop your potential further? If so, we would like to meet you!

This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in the development and shaping of a major new and innovative approach to providing mental health care within the community. You will be joining a new, energetic, friendly and progressive team, where you will be well supported and supervised. We are keen to work with the right people to develop their skills and their careers.

We are seeking to recruit an assistant psychologist to work within WAM MHS in East Berkshire. This is an exciting post, supporting the development and implementation of a new and comprehensive psychological offer for people with significant mental health needs in primary and secondary care.

You will be working as part of a team to support and enhance the psychological care of adults with significant mental health issues presenting to services within east Berkshire.

You will deliver a range of individual and group interventions under supervision of a qualified psychologist. This will include helping people to access and work with existing online resource packages promoting mental health, often as an adjunct to additional therapeutic intervention being undertaken by other members of the team, but also potentially as a stand-alone intervention.

You will work to promote and support independence and take a strengths and recovery based approach. You will also have opportunities to enhance your skills in research, audit, data management and service development.

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

1. Caring for and about you is our top priority
2. Committed to providing good quality, safe services
3. Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

1. Flexible working options to support work-life balance
2. 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
3. Generous NHS pension scheme
4. Excellent learning and career development opportunities
5. ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
6. Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
7. Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
8. Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
9. Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
10. Free parking across Trust sites

The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:

1. An upper second class (2:1) honours degree or higher in psychology
2. Entitlement to graduate membership of a core professional body (i.e. BPS, BABCP, Social Work England, HCPC, NMC, or equivalent)
3. Previous experience of delivering CBT informed interventions under supervision

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Bethan Whiteman, Principal Psychologist or Anopama Kapoor, Principal Psychologist on 01189047300 or email: bethan.whiteman@berkshire.nhs.uk or anopama.kapoor@berkshire.nhs.uk, who will be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.