Assistant Psychologist (Eastfield’s) FTC 12 Months
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £30,353 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

MAIN PURPOSE:

To work under the clinical supervision of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide psychological support to the Brainkind neurobehavioral rehabilitation programme within the service/hospital.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the guidance and supervision of the supervising Psychologist to provide assistance in:

• Behavioural monitoring with observations, data gathering, analysis, management and presentation of behavioural data for weekly clinical team meeting.
• Behavioural modification with writing and maintaining behavioural guidelines with support to the wider staff team in their implementation.
• Neuropsychological assessments with the production and presentation of findings.
• Supporting individual people, we support with weekly meetings and specific interventions.
• To maintain and provide those outcome measures identified within the agreed annual schedule.
• To produce behavioural and emotional progress reports for Review Meetings and present these.
• Group work (e.g. anger management and life skills). Training and support of the wider staff team both on induction and written weekly tutorial sessions.
• Liaison role between Clinical Lead, Clinical Team and wider staff team regarding understanding and implementation of behaviour management programme.

*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks