Assistant Psychologist

Cygnet Health Care; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job description

Assistant Psychologist Adult Mental Health.

Employer: Cygnet Healthcare

Location: Cygnet Hospital Sedgley House and Lodge

Salary: £27,825 (per annum)

Hours: Full-time (40 hrs a week)

Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge, Wolverhampton

Cygnet Healthcare is seeking to recruit a full-time, experienced and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge in Wolverhampton. This role will be working 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday.

Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge offers a 34-bed high dependency inpatient rehabilitation service for men with complex needs as well as supporting 8 beds in our community step-down houses. The service is designed to provide an environment that promotes mental health recovery by focusing on space, personal privacy, and dignity.

Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge is a multi-disciplinary and psychologically informed service. The focus is on nurturing an enabling environment to deliver a clinical model, developed specifically to meet the needs of service users within an operational framework, providing a high-quality environment for promoting long-term recovery.

Job Role

The role of the Assistant Psychologist will be to support and enhance the psychological care of clients within Sedgley by assisting the Qualified Psychologist in the delivery and evaluation of effective services that meet Cygnet's Healthcare objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements, and user and carer needs and expectations. To thereby help understand, prevent, and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder and improve the mental health and wellbeing of clients. The role involves the administration, scoring, and report writing of psychometric assessments, standardized risk assessments, clinical formulation, and supervised individual and group interventions. Clinical supervision will be provided as an important part of personal and professional development, and additional training will be supported.

Candidate Profile

You will be a strong team player, confident, motivated, and well-organized. You will have a good understanding of the role of therapeutic boundaries, clinical risk, and the importance of evidence-based interventions. Patience and commitment are essential, but above all, you'll be someone with a genuine desire to help others. We are looking for someone with a good degree in Psychology; further postgraduate training in a relevant area of applied psychology and mental health is desirable. Previous experience of working within mental health services and settings is essential, and previous experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist and delivering 1:1 therapeutic work and/or group therapy sessions is desirable. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Please note this post may be closed early if a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Closing date: 14th April 2025

Proposed Interview Date: Week commencing 28th April 2025