We are pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for a Higher Assistant Psychologist.
Our diverse team work together to provide an innovative, trauma focused treatment programme for male offenders within a high secure prison. Our cutting-edge treatment relies upon people skilled and interested in using research, evaluation and audit practice.
Post-holders will support a number of exciting projects that help our therapeutic team to monitor treatment quality and the progress of patients in our service. You will also have involvement in service development projects and support our responsivity treatment programme.
You will be supported with regular supervision, access to varied training opportunities and encouraged to build relationships with our external research links.
This job is subject to security checks which require residency in the UK for the last 3 years, with no longer than a 6 month break abroad.
To support the professional psychological care of individual high risk patients who have a history of acute developmental trauma, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
The successful candidate will contribute to the implementation of research projects on the unit, as well as assisting in a number of assessment and evaluation activities that require direct patient contact. We deliver a neuro diverse treatment that you will be attached to by delivering structured support sessions outside of the group setting. In addition there are a number of clinically related administration and audit tasks attached to the post.
The post-holder will be required to work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide brief structured interventions to support axis 1 difficulties or where psychological barriers are preventing the patient from engaging in the trauma model offered on the OPDP Fens service. This to be agreed and supervised by a qualified psychologist.
To provide individual sessions for responsivity treatment to support the learning from groups through repetition and tailored adaptions. This is to be directed by a qualified psychologist leading the responsivity group and supervised by a qualified psychologist.
To act as a co-facilitator for group interventions within the OPDP Fens service. This to be supervised at all times by a qualified clinician.
To deliver mindfulness and virtual reality sessions to individual high risk patients within the Fens service, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist.
To deliver virtual reality interventions to operational and clinical staff, as appropriate.
To deliver key assessments to support the evaluation of virtual reality and neurofeedback interventions.
To contribute to staff training in relation to research, evaluation and audit interventions.
To contribute to protocol based psychological assessments of clients including neuropsychological tests, risk assessments, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with prisoners, under the close supervision of a qualified psychologist.
In common with all 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 undertake, within the Trust’s IPR, PDP and Clinical Governance policies, CPD through teaching, clinical supervision, discussions, visits, study days, courses and relevant reading as agreed with professional and line managers.
To participate in the Trust’s annual Appraisal process.
To attend all relevant mandatory training as and when required to do so.
