Assistant Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to join the multidisciplinary team at Wellesley Hospital, a modern and purpose-built facility providing care to men and women with mental health conditions. You will have the chance to develop specialist skills and contribute to psychological assessments, interventions, and research, all while working in a supportive environment committed to professional growth and development.

Main duties of the job

As an Assistant Psychologist, you will be responsible for a range of duties, including contributing to psychological assessments and formulations, facilitating interventions, assisting with training and reflective practice, maintaining clinical databases, completing outcome measures, and undertaking clinically relevant audits and research tasks. You will work under the supervision of the Senior Psychologist, gaining valuable experience and honing your skills in the field of mental health.

Job responsibilities

As an Assistant Psychologist, you will be:

• Contributing to psychological assessments and formulations
• Facilitating psychological interventions on a 1:1 and/or group basis to service users, monitoring and reporting upon their effectiveness
• Assisting in designing and delivering specialist training to others
• Assisting with the delivery of reflective practice for staff
• Maintaining clinical databases
• Completing outcome measures
• Writing reports for various audiences
• Service evaluation and other research tasks including collecting, analysing, and reporting upon an array of statistics
• Undertaking clinically relevant audits

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A minimum of an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology conferring eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist in a forensic and/or mental health setting in a similar role
• Experience of maintaining office systems and undertaking administration tasks
• Creative thinking, clinical efficacy, and a strong commitment to working with evidence-based models of therapeutic intervention
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• To meet professional practice expectations including the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics, and the BPS code of ethics and conduct

Where you will be working:

Location: Westpark 26, Chelston, Wellington, Somerset, TA21 9FF

Join the multidisciplinary team at Wellesley Hospital providing care to men and women with mental health conditions in a modern and purpose-built hospital with low and medium secure environments.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £26,813
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – (Inc Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off!
• Subsidised meals
• Free parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role, you will need a minimum of an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology, conferring eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Relevant experience working as an Assistant Psychologist in a forensic and/or mental health setting is also required, along with strong organisation, communication, and clinical skills.

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.