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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Assistant Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 08-May-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 08-May-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Hadrian Health Centre
- Address
- Elton Street East
- Town
- Wallsend
- Postcode
- NE28 8QU
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
Salary
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Assistant Psychologist
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
This post involves working within North Tyneside Specialist Community Psychology Service that offers a range of psychological interventions to patients presenting with psychological difficulties. The Team of Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists and Specialist Psychological Therapists offer psychological interventions for people in the community who are experiencing mental health difficulties. These difficulties may be complex and longstanding and may link to early developmental trauma. We offer a range of groups/courses, psychological interventions and therapies to meet the needs of the population we serve.
The post holder will support both the delivery and evaluation of the psychology service clinical offer. The post-holder will be empathetic, adaptable and responsive to the needs of our patients and have experience of working in mental health. You will also demonstrate emotional resilience and a capacity to maintain a compassionate approach even in stressful situations. Experience of using psychometrics or carrying out research would be beneficial as this will be a key part of the role.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Advert
To work within North Tyneside Community Specialist Psychology Service to assist with several defined duties as agreed with the clinical service lead (psychologist) and the team manager. These include a range of both clinical and non-clinical work such as clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collections of statistics, development of audit/research, teaching and other project work. Working under the guidance and supervision of qualified psychologists, the post holder will participate in clinical work such as the service's triage and screening pathway and providing support to and co-facilitate group interventions. To a more limited extent, when appropriate, to support and enhance the professional psychological care of patients within the Psychology Service, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the direct supervision of a qualified psychologist.
Tasks will be agreed and reviewed at appropriate intervals under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, but the post holder will take these tasks forward independently on a day-to-day basis.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will have a degree in a Psychology, with evidence of interest and experience in mental health and relevant research methods.
To work within North Tyneside Community Specialist Psychology Service supporting the range of psychological interventions delivered across the team, this may include group work, triage and psychological assessment
Assisting in evaluation/audit/research
Contributing to qualitative data storage and interpretation.
Summarising and communicating findings, to various key stakeholders.
Other responsibilities will include clinically related administration providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the direct supervision of a qualified psychologist.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Psychology (BA or BSc) (or Masters degree in Psychology, following a degree in a nonpsychology subject) recognised by the BPS .
- Eligible for graduate membership of the BPS
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate training counselling skills or other relevant areas of psychology
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Some evidence of an attempt to gain experience in areas relevant to psychology either via paid or voluntary work. Or having worked previously as an assistant psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Need to meet the motoring and driving skills required to travel across the geographical area of Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Reeves
- Job title
- Operational Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 295 2775
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