Assistant Psychologist

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Applications are invited for an Assistant Psychologist to join a highly established multi-disciplinary CAMHS team covering the North Tyneside area. The team caters for children and young people aged 0-18 and their families, who are affected by a variety of mental health difficulties and neuro-diversity.
We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated team player to support with the delivery of psychologically informed assessment, formulation and intervention across CAMHS. Skill in the assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions and delivering evidence based interventions as well as prior knowledge of cognitive assessments (e.g. WISC-V) is desirable.
We are keen to invest in training opportunities for the successful candidate, in order to develop skills and experience to improve service delivery and patient experience.
The post will be based at Albion Road Resource Centre, North Shields but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the Trust.
The role will involve supporting psychological assessment, formulation and diagnosis of a range of mental health conditions under supervision of a Qualified Clinical Psychologist and within a multi-disciplinary team. The successful applicant may be asked to deliver groupwork and/or workshops.
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessments and 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 team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collections of statistics, development of
audit/research, teaching and project work.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the
creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To assist in the provision of the delivery of psychological interventions within CAMHS, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Main responsibilities will be to provide psychologically informed assessment, formulation and treatment considerations for young people and their families referred to CAMHS under the supervision of a qualified psychologist/professional. There will also be opportunities to develop individual interests with regards to all other service contributions across CAMHS and an expectation of working across teams to offer psychological expertise.
CPD is supported and consideration of specialising in a specific field of special interest or relevant therapeutic intervention would be positively encouraged

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