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This post is open to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Employees Only
Band 5SeniorAssistant Psychologist-Community Mental HealthPsychological Therapies(CMHPT) Central Network
We are looking for an innovative and dynamic Assistant Psychologist,who iscurrently employed within Berkshire Healthcare,with skills and experience ofdirectclinical work, clinicaladministrationand audit.
The postholder willbecome an integral member ofthe Community Mental Health Psychological Therapies (CMHPT) Central Networkteam. The Central Network is a recent service development designed to enhance and improveequitableand efficient access to evidence-based psychological therapies forpeople with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) acrossall six ofBerkshire Healthcare’sadultcommunity Mental Health Services (MHS).
The role will involve offeringsupportto the Central Network team toenhance the psychological care of adult mental health service users, by contributing to the work of psychological therapists and other professionals inadultcommunity mental health services.The postholder will undertake administrative, audit and service evaluation tasks as directed and deliver reports and presentations associated with any such undertakings asrequired.
This role isfixed term until the end of March 2025for37.5hours per week. You will be based inUpton Hospital, Slough, with expectation to travel across sites within Berkshire.
• To collaborate with service users and their families/carers asappropriate todevelop individual and achievable goals and to enable service users to work towardsrecovery.
• To work as part of the CMHPT central network by undertaking clinical aspects of administrative processes, such as triage,allocationand case management.
• To provide specific psychological interventions, in groups or to individuals, working under the supervision of aregisteredpsychologist and adhering to the jointly developed intervention plan and/or supervisor’sdirections.
• To communicate sensitively and effectively with service users and carers to promote engagement, including those that are harder toreach.
• The postholder may be working with patients with moderate levels of risk and moderate levels of distress and will be expected to manage these in discussion/collaboration with supervisor or other colleagues to ensure these are appropriately and safely managed.
• To provide information to other team members and multi-agency colleagues to support theparticular needsof the service users and to ensure any risks are appropriatelymanaged.
• To ensure services are deliveredina manner that isappropriate,relevantand respectful to all community members, recognising the diversity of ethnicity, culture, belief,privilegeandcapacityof familymembers.
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.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
The “must haves” for this role:
1. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society.
1. Obtained an upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology.
1. Currently workingas an Assistant Psychologist in BHFT, withexperience of working with people with eithersignificantmental healthdifficulties, neuropsychological difficultiesorlearning disabilities.
1. High level communication skills including communicating and working in settings which atmosphere may be highly emotional.
1. High leveldatacollation and interpretationskills, including advanced spreadsheet(Excel)skills.
Ifyou’resomeone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us andlet’sbe outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Pleasedon’thesitate tocontact:DrPayal Amin-Lindsay, PrincipalCounsellingPsychologist atPayal.AminLindsay@berkshire.nhs.ukor Gareth Mitchell, Principal Clinical Psychologist atGareth.Mitchell@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe 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 whererequired.
This advert closes on Thursday 29 Aug 2024
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