Assistant Psychologist

Job Overview

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the Brent Integrated Psychology and Psychotherapy Service and residents within the Borough of Brent. To provide psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the service policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

Main duties of the job

To undertake protocol based psychological assessment of clients, including neuropsychological, tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members 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 and residential settings.

To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.

To work with other staff to assess community, day patients or residents 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 clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.

To provide support in the monitoring of client’s on the waiting lists for assessment and treatment.

To support the psychology team in the project evaluation.

Working for our organisation

Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and guidance with

Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies. We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training

opportunities across our services.

The catchment area of the post is the North London borough of Brent.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Work with people with mental health problems and /or other disabilities.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of paid work in direct care provision
• Experience of administering neuropsychological assessments.
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• High level of communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• An understanding of trauma-informed care approach
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems or other disabilities.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience using microcomputers for databases of data analysis, especially SPSS for Windows.
• High standard of report writing.
• An appreciation of issues of mental health across the lifespan.
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology.