Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

This role is offered on a fixed terms basis for 12 months. Inpatient Complex Psychological Interventions: Recovery and Acute Wards

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is looking to recruit an experienced Assistant Psychologist to work across the Recovery Units in Cheltenham and Acute Inpatient wards at Wotton Lawn Hospital, Gloucester. This is a full-time post on a fixed term 12-month contract.

Honeybourne and Laurel House are inpatient rehabilitation units based in Cheltenham. Wotton Lawn Hospital is in Gloucester and has four acute wards and a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU).

The Assistant Psychologist will be part of the Inpatient Complex Psychological Interventions (CPI) team, flexibly working across the Recovery Units and Acute Wards to support the Inpatient CPI team to deliver psychological interventions. This is a supportive and enthusiastic team consisting of two clinical psychologists, an art psychotherapist and a clinical associate psychologist (CAP).

The team support regular trainee placements from the Bath Clinical Doctoral Training Course, undergraduate placements and art psychotherapy trainee placements. Regular service development and research is undertaken in collaboration with GHC research department. Regular CPD, publication is actively supported and encouraged.

Main duties of the job

• Overview of Job

This role provides the opportunity to work with people both in short term, acute contexts and longer-term rehabilitation settings. Across both Acute and Recovery services, there is a focus on delivering group interventions and promoting psychological understanding within the multi-disciplinary team.

Full information about job role, qualifications, training & experience requirements for the role are stated in the Job Description/Person Specification.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Dr Vicki Weare, Specialist Clinical Psychologist, on 0300 421 4779 or 0300 421 4936.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is desirable however the ability to travel independently between our sites is essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details about the job role, qualifications, training & experience requirements for the role are stated in the Job Description/Person Specification.

In the wider community, psychologists, psychotherapists and art psychotherapists working within Recovery, Assertive Outreach and Early Intervention Teams form complex psychological interventions (CPI).

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.