Assistant Psychologist - Bodmin, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Bodmin, United Kingdom

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Description

Assistant psychologist:

Band 5:

Main area

Psychology

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Grade

Band 5

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time hours per week (home working and then moving to a hybrid pattern)

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Job ref

Site

Bellingham House

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Town

Bodmin

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Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

18/06/2023 23:59

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Interview date

27/06/2023Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

_ Strategic Themes_

_ Great Care_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._

Job overview:

The Kernow Workforce Wellbeing Hub (KWWH) is looking for two highly motivated individuals with excellent communication skills to help our service support the needs of the Cornwall health and social care workforce.

This KWWH is a trailblazing service formed under the new Cornwall and Isles of Scilly wide Integrated Care System.

We are a small but dedicated psychology team tasked with providing mental health wellbeing support to staff and colleagues through our 9-5 support line, outreach interventions and assessment service.

Innovation and new ways of working are key to our team approach and our aim to provide all team members with the opportunity to contribute and develop in a supportive environment.

This post will initially involve working from home but will then move to a hybrid working model based in Bodmin.

Interviews will be held on the 27th and 29th of June.
For more information, please see the job description and person specification.

Main duties of the job:

The key purpose of this role is to support health and social care staff across the Cornwall Integrated Care System (ICS) who experience psychological distress or symptoms of trauma as a consequence of ongoing or exceptional work pressure and stressors.

The post holder will support staff to enable them to address the impacts that this may have had upon their functioning and enable them to get access to appropriate input in relation to their wellbeing.

Specifically, the role will include:

Being responsible for promoting the psychological health and wellbeing of health and social care staff across Cornwall ICS.
Under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist:
Providing psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention to individuals or groups.
Assisting in clinically related administration, teaching, and project work.
Assisting in the collection of data, the development of service evaluation/audit and/or research projects

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us.

As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. Thi