Assistant Psychologist, full time, fixed term until 31/3/37.
We are looking for a highly motivated, hard-working and dynamic psychology graduate to join RISE: Recovery intervention Service Ealing and the Rough Sleepers Drug & Alcohol Team.
RISE is an established partnership substance misuse service between CGL (Change Grow Live), CNWL and Build on Belief. It specialising in supporting recovery for drug and alcohol difficulties and cater to a wide range of service users including co-occurring mental health and physical heath difficulties, criminal justice and services users who are sleeping rough or at risk of rough sleeping.
You would be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team; currently consisting of Psychiatry, Psychology, Nursing, Drug and Alcohol Recovery Practitioners, and Group facilitators.
The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions, both one to one and group, under the supervision, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
The post holder will also assist in clinically related administration; conduct audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
Minimum requirement of 2:1 undergraduate degree in psychology, an understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with addictions and/or mental health problems, and/or experience of working with people with other disabilities, and good research skills. Experience of working with people with addictions is be valuable, but we recognise that not all applicants will have had this opportunity. Tailored induction and training will be provided to enable you to work effectively with this client group.
The Addictions Directorate within CNWL Foundation Trust is a large, well-established provider which offers a wide range of specialist NHS drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural populations in Central and North West London. Our drug and alcohol services include community services, A&E liaison services, Peripatetic nurses, Family Therapy, a National Problem Gambling Clinic and a Club Drug Clinic.
Our substance misuse services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance misuse dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances and helping clients and their families rebuild their lives and enable recovery. We are committed to working in partnership with other providers and service users in local systems of treatment and recovery.
CNWL is committed to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment options and is a learning organisation which promotes staff competence and training and values clinical governance, audit and research. We are linked with Imperial College, University of London and are committed to evaluating our services and developing new and innovative approaches.
For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work.
2. To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects on a regular basis in order to help develop and improve service provision. This may include complex audits / service evaluation using qualitative or quantitative methods.
3. To undertake production of questionnaires, data collection, setting up of databases and spreadsheets, data analysis, and the production of reports and presentation of summaries to colleagues using IT and statistical programmes, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SPSS.
4. To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research using the internet and online databases e.g. Psych info, to assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other multi-disciplinary team members.
5. To carry-out practice-based research using validated questionnaires, reflective scientist practitioner skills, etc, as routine.
