Senior Assistant Psychologist MHTR

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

A n exciting opportunity has arisen within NHFT to work as an Assistant Psychologist within the Criminal Justice Team to engage with men and women for Mental Health Treatment Requirements for people convicted of low-level offending and co-occurring mental health difficulties.
The role will be to provide low-level psychological interventions, including psychoeducation, for depression, anxiety, and trauma. There will also be the opportunity to use research skills for audit, policy and service development, and research within the area served by the team/service.

We want to recruit a diverse workforce that is values-driven, compassionate, and desires to deliver high-quality care every day.

• Psychological assessments
• One to one interventions
• Low level interventions /anxiety management /sleep hygiene/ Emotional regulation
• Formulations using the 5 P’s
• Structured interventions
• Service development
• Audits
• Data collection and statistics
• Working alongside Mental health practitioners and the wider Healthcare

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details