Assistant Psychologist
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00
Location: Fareham, Hampshire
Are you an experienced Assistant Psychologist with familiarity of working with individuals of varying complex mental health needs? Are you looking for a new challenge working with one of the largest providers of specialist social care services in the UK? If so, we have just the opportunity for you.
Do you share our Company Values – are you positive, friendly, empowering, person centred and innovative?
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Psychologist with a professional qualification on a full-time basis of 37.5 hours a week. The successful candidate will have a desire to support our service users during a period of rehabilitation at Uplands Care Home in Fareham, Hampshire. Uplands is situated in its own extensive grounds on the outskirts of Fareham, Surrey and provides high quality assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and ongoing care to those aged 18-65.
To provide psychology input under qualified psychologist and trainee psychologist supervision to the Care Team and service users; providing specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and treatment in the limits of professional competency and experience under qualified psychologist supervision.
To work under supervision within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Department’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the Department at the qualified requests.
Rewards & Benefits:
- Up to 28 Days Holiday
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff on a variety of topics for self-development of your career
- Free DBS Check
- Stakeholder Pension
- Free Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual Employee Awards Evening
- Employee Recognition Schemes
- Career progression within the company
- CareTech Foundation - Opportunity to apply for family and friends
Job Role:
- To be support to qualified psychologist and trainee psychologist to implement the psychological pathway treatment plan and the quality of the psychology service provided following the model of care agreed.
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users admitted to Uplands based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users , family members , outside agency ; and others involved in the service user’s care, under qualified supervision and mentoring.
- To contribute on the outcome of care plans, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of their problems, and employing therapeutic methods based on evidence under qualified psychologist supervision.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, individually and in group settings under qualified and trainee psychologist supervision.
- To support the outcome of treatment using appropriate outcome measures and to be able to adapt treatment according to service user’s mental state and motivational level under qualified psychologist supervision.
- To contribute indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, across all settings and agencies serving the client group under qualified psychologist supervision
- To support the implementation of best practice guidelines, NICE guidelines and Department of Health guidance for psychological services for serious mental illness and personality disorders within the competency of their role and under qualified psychologist supervision.
- To contribute to psychological, behavioural and risk assessments.
- To participate in the risk assessment process through gathering and collation of relevant information.
This Job description gives an outline of the post and is subject to review in consultation with the post holder.
CareTech - Uplands is committed to developing effective user and carer involvement at all stages in the delivery of care. All employees are required to make positive efforts to support and promote successful user and carer participation as part of their day to day work.
Your development will be assessed using CareTech’s Performance Appraisal Review process. You will have the opportunity to discuss your development needs with your manager on an annual basis, with regular reviews.
The post holder is subject to the terms and conditions of CareTech.
Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure prior to commencement of employment, the disclosure expense will be met by the employer.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to contact every applicant. We will be in touch 7-10 days after receipt of your CV if progressing your application to the next stage.
* Some of our roles require male or female employees only, where this is indicated it is a genuine occupational requirement, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 *
