Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

Assistant Psychologist Posts – Band 5

Up to 37.5 hours per week per post (part time and full time posts may be available)

We have several vacancies for full and part time Assistant Psychologists in the Neuropsychology Team at Combined Healthcare, a CQC-rated ‘Outstanding’ Mental Health Trust. We have permanent and fixed term (to cover maternity leave) posts. Posts are available due to service expansion and assistants gaining a place on Clinical Psychology doctoral training (we have an excellent record of assistants progressing onto clinical training).

We have vacant posts in inpatient (major trauma and neuro-rehabilitation) and outpatient (neurology, neuro-oncology and neuro-community/Long COVID) neuropsychology services. The roles will involve contributing to the assessment, formulation and treatment of patients with neurological conditions.

There is some flexibility to allow home working at times, depending on service need. The post holder will receive weekly clinical supervision from a senior or consultant psychologist/neuropsychologist, and be part of a large, supportive team of psychologists. There is opportunity for teaching, research, clinical audit and CPD.

Main duties of the job

Core features of the roles will include:

• Working alongside a Senior Psychologist/Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Multi-Disciplinary Team to provide high quality psychological formulation and intervention for patients
• Administration and scoring of neuropsychological assessments, screening tools and outcome measures
• Providing structured interventions under the supervision of a Psychologist/Neuropsychologist
• Working with people who have complex needs which can present/lead to challenging situations or behaviours and risk.
• Assistance with service development and evaluation
• Supporting psychologists to offer group interventions
• Previous experience of working with adults with physical, cognitive or mental health problems is essential.
• Previous experience of working in a multidisciplinary team would be an advantage.
• Inpatient and outpatient working
• In person and online patient appointments

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of neuropsychologically-informed assessment, rehabilitation and psychological support
• Post-holders will work under the supervision of a Senior Psychologist or Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.
• Post holders will be expected to deliver test materials and to be able to concentrate for long periods of time to complete assessments, score and write up the results.
• Post holder may be required to work with clients who are highly distressed, anxious or hostile and will experience sensitive situations frequently. The client group will include people with a range of organically induced behaviour management disorders.
• Working independently to a plan agreed with a psychologist/neuropsychologist
• To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits and projects, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
• Managing own workload with support from a psychologist/neuropsychologist to identify priorities
• Good organisational skills as well as ability to work to deadlines and produce good quality work is required
• The ability to cope with psychologically distressing patient information is essential