An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Mental Health team at HMP Whitemoor as an Assistant Psychologist. The role will be to support our clinical psychologist in the care of clients and to deliver psychological therapies. You will also work closely with Mental Health Practitioners and the wider healthcare team in delivering a trauma-informed service.
As part of the Stepped Care model, as an Assistant Psychologist, you would be able to work with clients with low-level mental health needs using basic counselling, anxiety management, and depression and anxiety interventions. You will provide psychological assessment, formulations, and interventions under the regular clinical supervision of a qualified psychologist. Part of your role will be to deliver structured interventions that you are trained in depending on the client's needs.
There will be an expectation to partake in service development, audits, and data collection on a regular basis.
Main Duties of the Job Psychological assessments One-to-one interventions Counselling Low-level interventions / anxiety management / sleep hygiene / emotional regulation Formulations using the 5 P's Structured interventions Service development Audits Data collection and statistics Working alongside Mental Health Practitioners and the wider healthcare team About Us NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health, and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work, or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development, and growth.
Job Description For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification Essential Psychology degree Second honours and above Desirable Previous experience working in a forensic mental health setting An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge with clients Employer Details Employer Name: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address: HMP Whitemoor, Longhill Road, March, PE15 0PR
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