Assistant Psychologist

We are looking for a compassionate, reflective, and resilient Assistant Psychologist to join our Community Therapies team within the Older People's Service at Chatterton House, King's Lynn.

Working under the supervision of qualified Clinical Psychologists and Psychological Therapists, the Assistant Psychologist will support psychological assessment and intervention. This includes contributing to the development and sharing of clinical formulations across services, as well as co-facilitating group interventions.

The role also involves assisting in the creation, adaptation, and delivery of self help and psychologically informed materials. In addition, the post holder will support the use of outcome measures to inform clinical practice, audit processes, and service evaluation.

The overall aim of the role is to enhance the quality of psychological care provided across the Directorate. This includes delivering assessments and interventions under supervision, working both collaboratively and independently within agreed care plans, and adhering to team policies and procedures.

The post holder will also contribute to clinically related administration, teaching, and project work.

Main duties of the job

• To carry out protocol based psychological assessments of patients, including neuropsychological tests, self report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi structured interviews with patients and others involved in their care, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
• To support and co facilitate therapeutic group interventions (e.g. CBT, and DBT informed groups), in collaboration with psychology and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• To contribute psychological perspectives within multidisciplinary team meetings as appropriate to the role.
• To support qualified psychology and psychotherapy staff in the planning and delivery of psychologically informed training for staff working within or alongside acute services.
• To administer, collate and input clinical and service related data, including routine outcome measures, to support audit, service evaluation and research activity.
• Where required and appropriate, to prepare psychology reports, under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist.
• Where required and appropriate, to attend and contribute to appropriate multi disciplinary meetings.
• To maintain the highest of standards of research governance, ethical practice and data protection.
• Where directed, to assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects within the Directorate

Person Specification Qualifications

• A BPS accredited degree in Psychology at 2.1 or above

Skills

• Skills using software for statistical analysis
• High standard of report writing
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to service users and colleagues
• Presentation skills

Knowledge

• An understanding of psychology applied to health care
• Knowledge of mental health
• An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context
• Understanding of needs and difficulties of individuals with mental health difficulties or disabilities

Experience

• Experience of quantitative research
• Experience of research in an NHS context

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£28,392 to £31,157 a yeargross per annum