Administration Assistant

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated administration assistant and/or psychology graduate to work alongside an experienced Principal Counselling Psychologist in the Adult Community Psychological Service across South East Essex. The role is a rare opportunity to support and enable a psychologist with a visual impairment, which in turn offers the successful candidate diverse experience of working in a NHS psychology team. This exciting post provides an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic and dedicated team. The role is largely admin based but all work is founded in clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

The Adult Community Psychological service provides a specialist mental health service to the South Essex locality. Services aim to enhance the capacity to deliver psychological therapies and to utilise psychological skills within MDTs. Services have undergone influential restructuring processes to enhance the capacity to deliver psychological therapies and to utilise psychological skills within MDTs. The established Clinical Director of Psychological Services works closely with the senior management team to develop and improve delivery of psychological therapies, and to enable psychologists to develop and implement their leadership skills. This provides an environment for Psychological Services staff to develop their skills through high quality supervision and a supported CPD programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work alongside the counselling psychologist providing an Adult Community Psychological Service to the Recovery and Wellbeing Teams (RWT) and in other aspects of their leadership. The RWT delivers care plans aligned to recovery focused outcomes to clients with longer term needs. Psychologists provide direct client contact in the form of assessment and treatment, as well as providing consultation and supervision to other professionals.

The post-holder should have a passion for developing their clinical and research skills, and be keen to work flexibly and in a variety of settings. You will be expected to support a qualified psychologist in the preparation and record keeping of group therapy programmes and specific components of clinical treatment. The role will offer shadowing experiences as well as assisting with report writing, clinical note keeping and managing databases. There will be significant opportunity to gain experience of working in a multidisciplinary team, including witnessing the liaison with allied professionals, experiencing how psychologists contribute to the sharing of psychological knowledge and case discussion. Remaining time will include attending referrals meetings with the locality psychologist, participating in departmental forums and providing transport between sites as needed. Your work will be closely supervised by the locality psychologist and you will therefore also gain experience of the supervisory process.