Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

We are delighted to advertise two exciting opportunities for Assistant Psychologists to join the expanding psychology provision within our female adult acute inpatient ward in Oldham.

These full-time Band 4 permanent positions forms part of significant new investment in our service and form a key part of developing, supporting and strengthening our female model of care. As part of our improvement journey, our female acute wards strive to create a safe, respectful and trauma and gender-informed environment where women and staff feel valued, heard and supported. Care is shaped by dignity, choice and collaboration, with clarity around individual needs. We want each admission to be both purposeful and therapeutic.

The successful candidates will join qualified practitioner psychologists and the wider multidisciplinary team to support the delivery of high-quality, compassionate, psychologically informed care for women experiencing a distressing mental health crisis.

The postholders will be required to work flexibly, which will include evening and weekend hours to meet service needs.

Main duties of the job

As outlined in the job description, the main duties include:

• To support and enhance the psychological care of adults within acute mental health wards setting. This includes supporting the delivery of the female model of care, ensuring the ward environment and daily interactions reflect psychological and gender- and trauma‑informed and recovery focused principles
• Providing psychological assessments and interventions under clinical supervision. This may be through 1:1 and/or group sessions, to adults with complex mental health needs.
• Carrying out structured assessments, observations and outcome measures
• Supporting the development of care plans and ward‑based formulations
• Assisting with audits and projects, evaluation, and service improvement activity
• Helping to maintain high-quality clinical documentation and data collection
• Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings, reflective spaces, staff support, and the wider ward culture

You will receive clinical supervision from a Practitioner Psychologist and join peer supervision with other Assistant Psychologists in the acute pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed overview of the roles job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and personal specification.

Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.