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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
About
Our mission: To improve the quality of life for people in Cheshire and Wirral by providing specialist health and social care services and support to individuals, families and communities affected by mental illness or learning disabilities.
Key details
1. Location: Stein Centre, Derby Road, Birkenhead, CH42 7HB
2. Contract type: Fixed term: 12 months
3. Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
4. Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum (pro rata)
5. Specialty: Assistant Psychologist
Job Overview
1.0 fte Assistant Psychologist working predominantly with adults (18-65) and older adults (65+)
Wallasey and West Wirral Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) covers the Wirral and supports people with mental health difficulties from the age of 18, including older people. We are looking for an Assistant Psychologist to join our team. This is an exciting time of change as the team participates in the national Community Mental Health Transformation programme.
The successful applicant will be joining a friendly, supportive, and forward-thinking CMHT, and will be well supported by our Clinical Psychologists, including the provision of regular supervision. There will be opportunities for developing clinical skills through direct and indirect work with service users. They will take responsibility for carrying out psychological screening assessments and brief interventions, including group interventions. There will be opportunities to complete audit and small-scale research projects, and to contribute to, and deliver training to colleagues.
Main duties of the job
1. Completion of Psychological Screening Assessments with service users on the therapy waiting lists, including completion of initial formulations
2. Contribute to the assessment of dementia, including neuropsychological assessment
3. Provision of low-level and brief psychological interventions
4. Completion of audits and small scale service-related research
5. Designing and co-facilitating psychological group interventions, including the potential for developing group interventions in the community
6. Attendance at relevant meetings including weekly Team Meetings
7. Providing support to the psychology team, and the wider CMHT
8. Support for ongoing service development projects, including projects relating to the psychology team and to the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme
The post holder will also assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
Working for our organisation
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care including the provision of three GP surgeries. Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs: Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated behaviours.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Good honours degree in Psychology (2.1 or above). Eligibility for Graduate Membership of BPS.
* To undertake breakaway training or equivalent following appointment.
Desirable criteria
* Advanced keyboard skills
* Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential criteria
* The ability to communicate complex/ sensitive information where barriers to understanding exist.
* The ability to make judgements involving a range of facts or situations requiring analysis or comparison of a range of options.
* The ability to organise straightforward tasks, activities or programmes.
* Working to Professional Guidelines
* Must be capable of working within guidelines; receives regular supervision and direction.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to use routinely available spreadsheet/database software (Excel, Access, etc.)
* Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Demonstrable relevant work experience or knowledge of working with people who have complex mental health problems.
Desirable criteria
* Relevant work experience of people with mental health problems
* Desire to progress to Clinical Training (DClinPsy).
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