INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY - Assistant Psychologist -MH Adult Acute Ward

INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY - Assistant Psychologist -MH Adult Acute Ward

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Psychologist - Inpatients Adult Mental Health

Open to current MPFT employees only

Hours: 37.5 hours - Permanent Contract

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised Assistant Psychologist to join our Adult Acute wards at St Georges Hospital, Stafford. We are an award-winning team, and we will help you reach your full potential. We will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake protocol-based psychological assessments with service users, family members, and others involved in the service user's care.
• To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user's problems, including simple procedures and techniques related to psychological therapies.
• To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups, including receiving and managing referrals under guidance, facilitating service user attendance, co-delivering the workshop material, and recording outcomes.
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary pathway meetings.
• To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
• Assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collect statistics, and develop audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI, and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job responsibilities

The role is varied and provides an opportunity to build upon clinical skills, develop and implement group interventions, utilise service evaluation and research skills, and develop multidisciplinary team working skills; therefore, good timekeeping skills and the ability to manage multiple, competing demands are essential to the role. This post would provide an ideal basis for individuals wishing to pursue Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology. Further training and CPD opportunities are accessible within this role.

The successful candidate will be well supported with supervision from the Registered Psychologists in the team, and there will be opportunities for networking with other Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, and other mental health professionals.

You will join a diverse and supportive group of psychological practitioners within a service committed to ongoing professional development for staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A First or Upper Second honours degree in psychology OR a lower class with a post-graduate qualification e.g., Masters degree.
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
• Experience of working in an inpatient setting
• Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, autism, personality disorder, and/or research design and analysis.

Experience

• Significant experience of face-to-face work with mental health and/or offender clients
• Experience of working within a team setting
• Experience of working with people with emotional dysregulation, poor impulse control, and self-harm
• Experience of working within multi-disciplinary settings and multi-agency settings
• Experience working with clinical psychologists and awareness of professional standards/issues

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.