Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

Are you a Psychology graduate seeking to gain further clinical experience?

The Early Intervention in Psychosis service in Oxfordshire is a well-established, service providing multidisciplinary team working for all those experiencing a first episode of psychosis. We are a clinical academic service, working alongside researchers from the University of Oxford. We are at the forefront of undertaking research in the area of early psychosis to understand the causes of psychosis and the most effective treatments, and implementing these findings in practice, for the benefit of patients. The service provides high quality NICE recommended interventions.

We are recruiting for an Assistant Psychologist to join us full-time based at our Slade Site in Oxford. You'll join a team of experienced and motivated clinicians who work to provide the best service possible to both clients and carers. Successful applicants will have to demonstrate experience working in mental health, as well as motivation, enthusiasm, flexibility, willingness to learn and an ability to engage and empathise at a variety of levels.

We offer a friendly and enthusiastic environment where you'll be supported in developing personally and professionally to take the next step in your career. There are great CPD opportunities, such as training in cognitive-behavioural therapies and family interventions for psychosis.

We work across the county, so the ability to travel between sites is essential.

Please note: this advert will close when a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• Support and enhance the clinical and psychological care of clients within the Early intervention service, across all sectors of care; providing initial assessments, psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist and other AHPs, and working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and the team manager within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• Play a key role in clinically-related administration, conduct of audits and service evaluations, collection and reporting of team outcome measures.
• Development of clinical research projects, teaching and project work as appropriate.

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.