Assistant Psychologist

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Do you want to work with young people and families and have transferable skills to work with complex mental health needs? We have an exciting opportunity to work for a Trust that is rated ’Outstanding’ by the CQC.
The CAMHS Rapid Response Team are offering a new exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join the service in responding to and supporting young people and adolescents presenting in crisis in the community. The CAMHS Rapid Response Service is split into two functions. The assessing function delivers high-quality mental health assessments, and the Intensive Treatment Team delivers short-term intervention to young people experiencing mental health crisis. This role is for the Intensive Treatment Team function of the service.
This role will offer intensive short-term psychological interventions to young people and their families, while receiving supervision and support from senior Clinicians including a Highly Specialist Psychologist. This role includes delivering 1:1 individual psychological interventions as well as the facilitation of psychological skills groups, under the supervision of a clinical psychologist and other senior Clinicians. Applicants must have skills and experience in working with young people with a wide range of mental health difficulties and who present with challenging and risk behaviours and have ideally also worked with their parents/carers.
Delivering 1:1 sessions to provide support with distress tolerance and build emotional resilience. This could include providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature such as psycho-educational programmes.
Groups (such as DBT- informed) under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist and other senior Clinicians.
Offering intensive support (in the home & in community settings) to support families and young people, where there is a risk of placement breakdown and/or hospital re-admission.
Assisting in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users.
Attending and contributing to appropriate multi-disciplinary and psychology meetings.
To assist in the overall clinically related administration of the team such as conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audits, quality improvement and/or research projects.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Relevant CAMHS experience
Assistant Psychologist: an upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology
Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health will be beneficial.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Emily Perrin on 07815 485196 or email: emily.perrin@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required