NHS Jobs
Job role: Assistant Psychologist
Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 246-GYW7885034
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About the Job:
The post holder will be allocated to Catton ward, the 18-bedded newly refurbished admission, assessment and rehabilitation ward. Catton ward is a Medium Security services for men, located at Northside House. The post-holder will work alongside the qualified psychologist for the ward, and under the umbrella of the wider, well-established NSFT Secure Services Psychology Team.
Within this role, you will have the opportunity to help deliver risk assessments, mental health assessments and brief psychological interventions to service users, as well as co-facilitating therapeutic group work.
As part of the MDT, you will be working with the ward team to help create and implement positive behaviour support plans, and to support the ward team with psychological formulations and psychologically informed practice.
The posts involve working with a range of mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, personality disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders. There will also be the opportunity to learn about offence specific assessments, formulations and interventions which are delivered by the team.
Benefits
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.
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
