Assistant Psychologist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

We will ensure that this role offers you the opportunity to:

• Broaden depth of psychological knowledge and experience
• Supervised by clinical psychologist
• Direct clinical work
• Research & evaluation
• Delivery of evidence-based practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Gain experience in working within Eating Disorders team
• Gain experience in a wide range of psychological difficulties such as depression, self-harm, anxiety, eating difficulties, and trauma.
• Opportunities to develop skills in group work with appropriate training. This may involve working into late afternoon/early evening e.g. 5-6.30 pm
• Gain greater CAMHS experience with complex cases linking with the different Mental Health pathways
• Opportunities to work within a service improvement, redesign and clinical effectiveness process

We are looking for people who can support the running of our skills groups, work alongside the clinical team delivering therapy, and Clinical and Management Leads to deliver a high-quality service across CFHD. Assistant Psychologists are highly valued in our service, and we are committed to providing you with a valuable experience towards career progression.

Job responsibilities

Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;

Torbay and South Devon FT

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

Our children and young people say

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.