We are recruiting an enthusiastic and compassionate Assistant Psychologist to join us at Walkerwood Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. The post will suit a motivated candidate who wishes to gain experience of promoting psychological perspectives within inpatient services.
Walkerwood is a 10 bed unit that provides support and therapy to men aged 18+ who are experiencing difficulties such as hearing voices, unusual beliefs, mood changes, and emotion dysregulation. Many of the men also have significant trauma histories and have been in contact with forensic services.
Walkerwood aims to provide short-term, intensive support that promotes independence and recovery, and works towards discharge to less restrictive environments. The psychology team provide a range of evidence-based interventions, which are delivered on both an individual and group basis. They also offer support to the team in the form of weekly Reflective Practice and Team Formulation meetings. We are currently trying to implement a trauma-informed approach on the ward.
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Walkerwood unit - psychiatric intensive care unit (Tameside) :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Support the lead psychologist to promote psychological perspectives on the ward. You will be expected to deliver low intensity interventions to service users on both and individual and group basis. You will also support the wider MDT to develop individual positive support plans with service users.
You will support the implementation of a trauma-informed approach on the ward by supporting with weekly Team Formulation and Reflective Practice. You will also be responsible for administrative tasks such as preparing notes on individuals backgrounds, data input and spreadsheet management.
You will receive clinical and line management supervision from a Clinical Psychologist and join peer supervision with other Assistant Psychologists.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
