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Assistant Psychologist - Tees Personality and Relational Service

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Grade
Band 4
Deadline
24 Dec 2024
Contract Type
12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment for 12 months)
Posted Date
10 Dec 2024

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Personality and Relational (P&R) Service based in Stockton on Tees.  The team supports individuals with complex emotional needs and works with staff teams across planned and urgent care services in Teesside.  This role offers experience of working in a systemic way across multiple agencies, teams. It includes both indirect and direct ways of working and the ability to develop excellent working relationships with a diverse range of professionals.

Main duties of the job

You could be involved in:

  • complex safety and risk planning, including multi-agency safety plans
  • contributing to multidisciplinary discussions about a patient’s diagnosis, treatment and care plan
  • Developing formulations by reading notes, investigating histories etc with a focus on understanding risk
  • working directly with service users supporting with safety planning, short interventions if appropriate
  • Supporting the supervision of staff teams
  • Supporting teaching and training on Structured Clinical Management and topics related to complex emotional needs.
  • Evaluation of the service
  • Literature reviews related to the client group

You’ll be supervised by a registered practitioner psychologist with overall clinical responsibility for the patients you work with.

You will also be provided with ongoing supervision to help you engage in self-reflection, seek and respond to feedback, and develop your professional knowledge and skills.

You’ll need to keep clear written records, draft reports, evaluations and document safety plans / multi-agency plans

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy’s Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

Applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis. In the event that permanent funding is secured for this post the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.