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Job requirements
Essential
7 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Skills using microcomputers for databases or date analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.
- Knowledge
Knowledge of mental health
- Knowledge
Knowledge of quantitative research.
- Knowledge
High standard of report writing.
- Knowledge
An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
- Experience
Experience of quantitative research
- Qualifications
A BPS accredited degree in Psychology at 2.1 or above
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients and colleagues.
- Skills
Presentation skills
- Knowledge
An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
- Knowledge
An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context.
- Experience
Experience of research in the NHS
Job overview
NSFT Specialist Services are seeking to recruit a psychology graduate for a full-time Assistant Psychologist posts based at the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit at Hellesdon Hospital. Applicants must have excellent literacy and numeracy skills, a psychology degree with 2.1 or above and be eligible for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
The Kingfisher Unit has 8 beds and offers specialist acute in-patient treatment for mothers who have serious mental illness, in an environment where they can stay with their babies. Mothers have a range of presentations including postpartum psychosis, severe post-natal depression and severe post-natal anxiety. We are the unit for the East of England region and have a full multi-disciplinary team including medics, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, health visitors, social workers, an occupational therapist, psychologists and a psychological therapist. There are lots of opportunities for multi-disciplinary working and learning about holding both the mother and babies’ needs in mind in our work.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve working with the ward team to deliver psychologically informed interventions, with a focus on short term, intensive individual work alongside some opportunities for group work. All clinical work would be under the guidance and supervision of the a qualified clinical psychologist. There would be opportunities for service-related research and audit. The post holder would also need to take the lead on collecting routine outcome measures and using databases to analyse the data collected.
You would receive weekly supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a service we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programme at the UEA and have supported previous assistant psychologist onto to clinical training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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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.
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This advert is for Assistant Psychologist with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, England. It is listed as a Band 4 Assistant psychologist role. The advertised salary is £28,392 - £31,157 gross per annum (pro rata). The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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