Higher Assistant Psychologist
| Posting date: | 21 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,407.00 to £34,581.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28407.00 - £34581.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Location: | Gosforth, NE3 3XT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9263-24-0609 |
Summary
The project is led locally by Robert Dudley and the overall project leads are Prof Daniel Freeman and Dr. Felicity Waite at Oxford University. Together with a team of co-applicants we will be recruiting study participants at 6 main sites, each with their own teams. The post holder will work under the supervision of Robert Dudley, the local site Principal Investigator, and a local trial coordinator, and in a close working partnership with the central Trial team based at Oxford. The post-holders will be key to the successful delivery of this trial and will lead on recruitment, assessment, and follow up of the participants. For details of the sleep intervention please look at this description ( A targeted psychological treatment for sleep problems in young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis in England (SleepWell): a parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial - The Lancet Psychiatry) Your main duties will be to meet the monthly recruitment targets, and to undertake assessments using a battery of measures, interviews, and cognitive assessments. To do this you will be actively liaising with teams, promoting the study, discussing referrals with clinicians, making contact with potential participants, gaining informed consent, undertaking sensitively a comprehensive assessment battery. You will ensure people have the capacity and competence to make informed judgments about participating in the study. You will work to retain people in the trial, and ensure that the study is conducted to the highest possible standard. You will meet for regular supervision (weekly local and trial wide), bringing questions about your assessments, and issues with engagement, and reflect on issues to do with building rapport to undertake effective assessments. You will work with colleagues within the trust and across the sites to ensure that the trial is delivered on time and to standard. You will enter the data in a timely manner, ensuring accuracy and quality of the information we record at our site. You will be motivated, determined, and excited about the role you are playing in helping to bring new, hopefully acceptable and effective treatments to people. You will meet many people, and their families, carers, and friends. You will be adaptable, and flexible in how you engage with people making your best effort to ensure that people feel comfortable, and able to engage in the assessment processes. You will work with teams, and services across the Trust. Please find attached job description for full details. Advertising date : 21st May 2024 Closing date : 18th June 2024 We welcome your application. We are seeking some additional funding, meaning that there may be scope to increase the hours to full time (1.0wte) and this will be discussed at interview, but please do not assume this and the post is advertised at 0.8wte and will be interviewed for on that basis.