Assistant Psychologist - Knowsley, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Knowsley, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The role will involve supporting psychological assessments and evidence-based interventions under the supervision of a qualified Psychologist.

Assistant Psychologists will work alongside Clinical and Counselling Psychologists to promote and support psychological treatments and pathways on the inpatient wards.

Assistant Psychologists will be given the opportunity to gain experience in systemic interventions, which may include reflective practice, delivering care spaces for staff to support wellbeing and facilitating Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) when working with behaviour that challenges.

The successful applicants must have a degree in psychology, which confers Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

There will be opportunities to support inpatient services in audit and research, in order to inform service development and support best practice.

The Assistant Psychologist will deliver group interventions for service users on the ward, which can include groups such as Anxiety Management, Coping Skills, Wellbeing and Recovery through Art.

This is a well-respected role for Assistants wishing to gain further experience of inpatient services, in supportive and welcoming teams.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Principal Responsibilities:

To undertake psychological assessments of service users under the supervision of a qualified psychologist which may include, as appropriate, a range of psychometric tests, selfreport measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semistructured interviews with service users, carers and others involved in the client's care.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community, day care and inpatient/residential settings as appropriate.
To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
To work with other disciplines to assess inpatients, outpatients, day patients or residents and review their care in preparation for multidisciplinary reviews.
To assist in the development of a psychological framework of understanding and care to all service users of the service, across all care settings.
To attend and contribute to appropriate multidisciplinary meetings as directed by the qualified psychologists.

Teaching, training and supervision

In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines and trust policy.
To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties
Where appropriate, and under the supervision of qualified staff, contribute to the training and support of other staff in psychological care

Management, recruitment and service development

To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed as required.

IT responsibilities (other than those used for research)

To be competent in the use of basic IT packages, such as Microsoft word.
Develop a skill base in the administration and analysis of a range of psychometric packages as directed.

Research and service evaluation

To assist in the design and implementation of audit, effectiveness and research projects.
To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of full reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.
To review evidence based literature and research to assist qualified psychologists and work with other team members in their clinical responsibilities as necessary.

General

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