Assistant Psychologist - Learning Disability Pathway

37.5 hours per week

Hello, I'm Melissa and I'm the Team Manager for the newly

formed Learning Disability Pathway here at Barnsley CAMHS.

We have successfully recruited a fantastic

multidisciplinary team of Learning Disability Nurses, an Occupational

Therapist, a Clinical Psychologist, and Psychiatry colleagues. We are looking

for an exceptional Assistant Psychologist to become the final piece of the

puzzle. This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive, innovative team

and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people with

learning disabilities and their families.

As an Assistant Psychologist you will deliver high quality,

highly specialist care and support to children and young people across Barnsley

within the Learning Disability Pathway.

As an Assistant Psychologist you will develop skills in

Neurodevelopmental assessments, service evaluation and individual/group based

therapeutic interventions.

The

successful candidate will have experience of working with children, young

people, and/or families within mental health or related services. They will

have an understanding of what a learning disability is and the challenges that

children, young people, and their families, may experience.

Main duties of the job

You will be supported by and work closely with our Clinical Psychologist, Emily, as well as our wider Psychology Team. This is a varied and rewarding role that offers the opportunity to develop a broad range of clinical and service development skills. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting the completion of Learning Disability Assessments
• Managing a supervised caseload of individual therapeutic interventions
• Undertaking supervised cognitive assessments, Qb testing, and school observations
• Contributing to data collection, service evaluation, audit, and research activities
• Completing behavioural assessments and functional analyses
• Co-facilitating therapeutic groups for parents and carers
• Supporting service-wide pathway calls and our Waiting Well initiatives

We are a close-knit, caring team that is committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and professional excellence. We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive and inclusive working environment where staff are encouraged to develop and thrive.

We recognise that working in children's mental health services can be both highly rewarding and emotionally demanding. As such, we place significant importance on staff wellbeing, mutual support, reflective practice, and ongoing professional development.

About us

We

are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health

and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,

Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are

the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is

to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this

by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ

staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a

difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage

diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being

a foundation Trust means were accountable to our

members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people

(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join

us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving

the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and

help each year.

We

are committed

to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and

vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this

commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Details

Date posted

13 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£28,392 to £31,157 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,

Flexible working

Reference number

C9378-B2386

Job locations

Barnsley CAMHS, New Street Health Centre

Upper New Street

Barnsley

S Yorkshire

S70 1LP

United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

This is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the

postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients

within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological

assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologist, working independently according to a plan

agreed with a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist and within the overall

framework of the teams policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related

administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of

audit and / or research projects, teaching and project work.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

Clinical:

To undertake protocol based psychological

assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including

neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and

indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients,

family members and others involved in the clients care.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of

care plans involving the psychological treatment and / or management of a

clients problems, under the supervision of a HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologist.

To assist in the coordination and running of

therapeutic groups or clinical projects.

To work with other staff to assess community

patients and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.

To assist in the development of a psychological

based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the

service, across all settings where care takes place.

6. To attend and contribute to appropriate

multi-disciplinary meetings.

7. To respect diversity. To treat everyone with dignity and respect

and act in ways that acknowledge and recognise peoples expressed beliefs,

preferences and choices.

IT

responsibilities (clinical)

To use highly developed IT skills.

To access knowledge through Internet searches

(e.g. Psych.Lit, Medline) to keep up to date with clinical and professional

development

For the preparation and presentation of

materials of effective teaching and training (e.g. power point, graphic

representations) to record and analyse data for research and audit (e.g.

databases, spreadsheets, statistical analysis packages e.g. SPPS).

To create graphs or charts to collate or

summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.

To assist in producing visual or material or

user friendly information for interventions with clients.

Teaching,

training and supervision

In common with all HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologists, to receive regular

clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

To gain wider experience of professional

psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal

service area where the post holder is employed.

To develop skills and competencies that assist

in the delivery of current duties.

To contribute to the training and support of

other staff, working within the Service in psychological care.

Management,

recruitment and service development

To assist in the design and implementation of

service development projects with the service as required.

To attend meetings in which service

developments are planned and discussed.

Research and

service evaluation

To assist in the design and implementation of

audit and research projects.

To undertake data collection, analysis, the

production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.

To undertake searches of evidence-based

literature and research to assist HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologists in evidence based practice in

individual work and work with other team members.

Trust Values:

The Trust is

committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects

that all staff treat people e.g,

service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with

dignity and respect at all time.

The post holder must at all times act

in accordance with the Trusts Values:

We

put the person first and in the centre

We

know that families and carers matter

We

are respectful, honest, open and transparent

We

improve and aim to be outstanding

We

are relevant today and ready for tomorrow

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or

wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in

accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and

understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust

policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must

comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training

required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise

concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with

the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand

their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any

information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General

Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The

Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy;

comply

with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol.

Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors.

Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire

training annually;

receive

supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal

in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role

specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand

their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment

Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise,

respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users,

carers and the public. Contribute to a

working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and

diversity;

ensure

they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and

young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The

Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding

policies and participating in relevant training;

comply

with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver

care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate,

through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual

development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide

by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action

when codes of conduct are breached;

work

flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a

culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in

People (IiP) Standards.

adhere

to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust

grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures

that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents

and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own

responsibilities under the Health and

Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of

infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and

contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in

the delivery of safe patient care.

This is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the

postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

This is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the

postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients

within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological

assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologist, working independently according to a plan

agreed with a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist and within the overall

framework of the teams policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related

administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of

audit and / or research projects, teaching and project work.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

Clinical:

To undertake protocol based psychological

assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including

neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and

indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients,

family members and others involved in the clients care.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of

care plans involving the psychological treatment and / or management of a

clients problems, under the supervision of a HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologist.

To assist in the coordination and running of

therapeutic groups or clinical projects.

To work with other staff to assess community

patients and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.

To assist in the development of a psychological

based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the

service, across all settings where care takes place.

6. To attend and contribute to appropriate

multi-disciplinary meetings.

7. To respect diversity. To treat everyone with dignity and respect

and act in ways that acknowledge and recognise peoples expressed beliefs,

preferences and choices.

IT

responsibilities (clinical)

To use highly developed IT skills.

To access knowledge through Internet searches

(e.g. Psych.Lit, Medline) to keep up to date with clinical and professional

development

For the preparation and presentation of

materials of effective teaching and training (e.g. power point, graphic

representations) to record and analyse data for research and audit (e.g.

databases, spreadsheets, statistical analysis packages e.g. SPPS).

To create graphs or charts to collate or

summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.

To assist in producing visual or material or

user friendly information for interventions with clients.

Teaching,

training and supervision

In common with all HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologists, to receive regular

clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

To gain wider experience of professional

psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal

service area where the post holder is employed.

To develop skills and competencies that assist

in the delivery of current duties.

To contribute to the training and support of

other staff, working within the Service in psychological care.

Management,

recruitment and service development

To assist in the design and implementation of

service development projects with the service as required.

To attend meetings in which service

developments are planned and discussed.

Research and

service evaluation

To assist in the design and implementation of

audit and research projects.

To undertake data collection, analysis, the

production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.

To undertake searches of evidence-based

literature and research to assist HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologists in evidence based practice in

individual work and work with other team members.

Trust Values:

The Trust is

committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects

that all staff treat people e.g,

service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with

dignity and respect at all time.

The post holder must at all times act

in accordance with the Trusts Values:

We

put the person first and in the centre

We

know that families and carers matter

We

are respectful, honest, open and transparent

We

improve and aim to be outstanding

We

are relevant today and ready for tomorrow

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or

wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in

accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and

understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust

policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must

comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training

required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise

concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with

the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand

their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any

information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General

Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The

Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy;

comply

with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol.

Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors.

Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire

training annually;

receive

supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal

in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role

specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand

their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment

Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise,

respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users,

carers and the public. Contribute to a

working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and

diversity;

ensure

they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and

young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The

Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding

policies and participating in relevant training;

comply

with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver

care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate,

through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual

development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide

by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action

when codes of conduct are breached;

work

flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a

culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in

People (IiP) Standards.

adhere

to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust

grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures

that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents

and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own

responsibilities under the Health and

Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of

infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and

contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in

the delivery of safe patient care.

This is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the

postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Practical experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities and/or psychological/behavioural/ neurological problems.

Desirable

• Experience of paid work in direct care provision, particularly in the care group of the specialty of this post.
• Experience of administering and scoring neuropsychological assessments.

Training

Desirable

• Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
• An ability to interact effectively with people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Able to travel throughout the catchment area, without unnecessary delays.
• A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Desirable

• An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
• A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology.

Qualifications

Essential

• An Honours degree in Psychology (2:1).
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• Ability to communicate information which may be perceived as contentious to patients, carers and colleagues in a manner that promotes understanding and acceptance.
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or other disabilities.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to health and social service contexts.
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

Desirable

• Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis.
• Experience using microcomputers for databases or data analysis especially SPSS for Windows.
• High standard of report writing.

Physical Attributes

Essential

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Practical experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities and/or psychological/behavioural/ neurological problems.

Desirable

• Experience of paid work in direct care provision, particularly in the care group of the specialty of this post.
• Experience of administering and scoring neuropsychological assessments.

Training

Desirable

• Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
• An ability to interact effectively with people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Able to travel throughout the catchment area, without unnecessary delays.
• A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Desirable

• An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
• A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology.

Qualifications

Essential

• An Honours degree in Psychology (2:1).
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• Ability to communicate information which may be perceived as contentious to patients, carers and colleagues in a manner that promotes understanding and acceptance.
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or other disabilities.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to health and social service contexts.
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

Desirable

• Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis.
• Experience using microcomputers for databases or data analysis especially SPSS for Windows.
• High standard of report writing.

Physical Attributes

Essential

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Barnsley CAMHS, New Street Health Centre

Upper New Street

Barnsley

S Yorkshire

S70 1LP

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Barnsley CAMHS, New Street Health Centre

Upper New Street

Barnsley

S Yorkshire

S70 1LP

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

This is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the

postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients

within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological

assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologist, working independently according to a plan

agreed with a HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist and within the overall

framework of the teams policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related

administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of

audit and / or research projects, teaching and project work.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

Clinical:

To undertake protocol based psychological

assessments of clients applying psychological theory, including

neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and

indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients,

family members and others involved in the clients care.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of

care plans involving the psychological treatment and / or management of a

clients problems, under the supervision of a HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologist.

To assist in the coordination and running of

therapeutic groups or clinical projects.

To work with other staff to assess community

patients and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.

To assist in the development of a psychological

based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the

service, across all settings where care takes place.

6. To attend and contribute to appropriate

multi-disciplinary meetings.

7. To respect diversity. To treat everyone with dignity and respect

and act in ways that acknowledge and recognise peoples expressed beliefs,

preferences and choices.

IT

responsibilities (clinical)

To use highly developed IT skills.

To access knowledge through Internet searches

(e.g. Psych.Lit, Medline) to keep up to date with clinical and professional

development

For the preparation and presentation of

materials of effective teaching and training (e.g. power point, graphic

representations) to record and analyse data for research and audit (e.g.

databases, spreadsheets, statistical analysis packages e.g. SPPS).

To create graphs or charts to collate or

summarise data on individual interventions or treatment programmes.

To assist in producing visual or material or

user friendly information for interventions with clients.

Teaching,

training and supervision

In common with all HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologists, to receive regular

clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.

To gain wider experience of professional

psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal

service area where the post holder is employed.

To develop skills and competencies that assist

in the delivery of current duties.

To contribute to the training and support of

other staff, working within the Service in psychological care.

Management,

recruitment and service development

To assist in the design and implementation of

service development projects with the service as required.

To attend meetings in which service

developments are planned and discussed.

Research and

service evaluation

To assist in the design and implementation of

audit and research projects.

To undertake data collection, analysis, the

production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes.

To undertake searches of evidence-based

literature and research to assist HCPC

registered Practitioner Psychologists in evidence based practice in

individual work and work with other team members.

Trust Values:

The Trust is

committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects

that all staff treat people e.g,

service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with

dignity and respect at all time.

The post holder must at all times act

in accordance with the Trusts Values:

We

put the person first and in the centre

We

know that families and carers matter

We

are respectful, honest, open and transparent

We

improve and aim to be outstanding

We

are relevant today and ready for tomorrow

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or

wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in

accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and

understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust

policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must

comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training

required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise

concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with

the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand

their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any

information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General

Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The

Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy;

comply

with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol.

Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors.

Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire

training annually;

receive

supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal

in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role

specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand

their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment

Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise,

respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users,

carers and the public. Contribute to a

working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and

diversity;

ensure

they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and

young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The

Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding

policies and participating in relevant training;

comply

with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver

care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate,

through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual

development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide

by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action

when codes of conduct are breached;

work

flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a

culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in

People (IiP) Standards.

adhere

to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust

grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures

that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents

and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own

responsibilities under the Health and

Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of

infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and

contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in

the delivery of safe patient care.

This is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake

other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the

postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

Experience

Essential

• Practical experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities and/or psychological/behavioural/ neurological problems.

Desirable

• Experience of paid work in direct care provision, particularly in the care group of the specialty of this post.
• Experience of administering and scoring neuropsychological assessments.

Training

Desirable

• Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
• An ability to interact effectively with people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
• Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
• Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
• Able to travel throughout the catchment area, without unnecessary delays.
• A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

Desirable

• An interest in working with people with mental health problems.
• A desire to explore a career in Professional Psychology.

Qualifications

Essential

• An Honours degree in Psychology (2:1).
• Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• Ability to communicate information which may be perceived as contentious to patients, carers and colleagues in a manner that promotes understanding and acceptance.
• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and/or other disabilities.
• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to health and social service contexts.
• An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

Desirable

• Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis.
• Experience using microcomputers for databases or data analysis especially SPSS for Windows.
• High standard of report writing.

Physical Attributes

Essential