Assistant Psychologist - Rotherham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Rotherham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you looking for something a bit different, a new challenge, a varied role?

Wathwood is an award-winning mental health hospital and prides itself on providing the highest quality of care to our patients.

We have exciting opportunities here at Wathwood in our unique Medium Secure setting.

Whether you are newly qualified and looking to take your first step on your career ladder, or fancy a new challenge, we have something to suit everyone.

We are seeking to recruit an assistant psychologist to join our fantastic multi-disciplinary teams within the hospital who are motivated to establish therapeutic relationships with our patients and be actively involved in delivering patient care within a hospital setting.

Experience of working in a forensic setting is desirable but not essential.

You will also be expected to assist patients with their reintegration into the community as part of their rehabilitation and recovery.

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 22ndFebruary 2023

We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and highly motivated assistant psychologist to join our team, in a challenging but rewarding role, to make a difference to the lives of our patients.

Therefore, applicants will need to:

Have excellent interpersonal skills
The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
Be committed to providing the highest standards of care
Promote and maintain high standards of care through excellent communication, motivation, supervision and role modelling

We want to help our staff reach their full potential and are committed to providing the support, skills and development needed to success.

This includes a supportive and strong health and well-being team.

Professional development and the well-being of our staff is crucial to support the delivery of key objectives for the hospital and wider Trust.

We value and encourage your continuing professional development and will support you with experienced supervision and other learning opportunities.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The post holder will work under the supervision of Forensic and Clinical psychologists to support the delivery of psychological assessment and interventions for adult male mentally disordered offenders within a medium secure hospital.

Some work experience and /or post-graduate training relevant to forensic services is desirable. It is essential that the post-holder values working within multi-disciplinary teams. Supervised experience of delivering structured group programmes is welcomed.

To undertake 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 the patient's care, under the supervision of a qualified psychologist.

To assist in formulation and the delivery of psychological treatment and/or risk management plans under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.

To assist in the running of therapeutic groups under the supervision of a qualified psychologist

To work with other staff to assess patient's and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.

To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all wards where care takes place.