Assistant Psychologist - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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    Job summary

    This is an exciting opportunity to work within a small team of Psychologists who are improving pathways and delivering therapies for victims and survivors of sexual assault across Norfolk & Waveney. This Enhanced Mental Health Pathway (for Sexual Assault and Abuse) team will be working with service users with complex trauma presentations, working across NSFT community teams and VCSE and system partners like the Sue Lambert Trust, Survivors in Transition, and the Harbours Centre. In addition to providing highly specialist therapies, the team will provide consultation and training to system partners.

    Main duties of the job

    In this assistant psychologist role, under the supervision of a Consultant Psychologist, you will be supporting the evaluation of the EMHP (SAA). You'll be meeting service users to support service user involvement, collect clinical outcomes and will be supporting NHSE dashboard reporting.

  • To support the evaluation of the EMHP (SAA)
  • To collect clinical outcome data and support reporting
  • To manage information and materials on intranet pages and teams channels
  • To co-create and co-deliver training
  • To co-ordinate audit and service evaluation.
  • To co-facilitate psychoeducational groups
  • About us

    Benefits included with this role are:-

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.
  • Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

    NSFT is committed to lifelong learning and continuous professional development (CPD) for its entire staff. There are a variety of definitions of CPD across the professions but it is usually taken to mean learning activities which update existing skills.

    CPD is determined through appraisal with a personal development plan agreed between an individual and their manager, with the commitment of the necessary time and resources.

    Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

    Interviews are to be confirmed, candidates may only be given a minimum of 3 days' notice, please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    See attached job description

  • To support the evaluation of the EMHP (SAA)
  • To collect clinical outcome data and support reporting
  • To manage information and materials on intranet pages and teams channels
  • To co-create and co-deliver training
  • To co-ordinate audit and service evaluation.
  • To co-facilitate psychoeducational groups
  • Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • BPS Accredited degree in Psychology
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience of quantitative research
  • Desirable

  • Experience of research in the NHS
  • Knowledge

    Essential

  • Knowledge of Mental Health & quantitative research
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
  • Desirable

  • An understanding of the needs & difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
  • An ability to apply existing knowledge to a mental health context.
  • Other

    Essential

  • Ability to travel independently.