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Assistant Psychologist in Staff Psychology | North Bristol NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 06 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS10 5NB |
| Company: | North Bristol NHS |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6352121/339-NBR4683 |
Summary
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We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and compassionate assistant psychologist to join the Staff Psychology Team at North Bristol NHS Trust, as part of our parliamentary award-winning Trust-wide Staff Wellbeing Service.
This Staff Psychology Assistant Psychology post offers a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic and organised psychology graduate with an interest in how to support colleague, team, and organisational wellbeing.
The post holder will work in close liaison with psychologists and the administrative team. The post holder will support the delivery of 1:1, group, and team-based interventions, development of creative and engaging resources (e.g., leaflets and presentations), and play a key role in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of quantitative and qualitative data. The post holder will have the opportunity be involved in the direct clinical work, on an individual and group / team basis, as appropriate and according to experience, with regular supervision.
The role is an excellent opportunity for a psychology graduate to develop their clinical and non-clinical skills in an exciting and evolving area of clinical psychology, to support progress towards a career in clinical psychology. The service has close links with the Bath Clinical Psychology training programme, offering elective trainee placements and teaching to third year Doctoral trainees, and a strong record in supporting post holders to access clinical training.
The post holder will be managed and supported by the Lead for Staff Wellbeing Psychology and the NBT Chief Psychology Professions Office and the work closely with other psychologists doctors, and HR colleagues within the broader Staff Experience service.
North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region and one of the largest trusts in the country. Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 35,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies. It employs more than 9,500 staff and has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds.
Alongside the Staff Wellbeing Psychology team, the NBT wellbeing service offers a range of other support for staff:
• Lifestyle support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Physical support through Physio Direct, walks to wellbeing
• Mental Health first Aid and Wellbeing Champion networks
• Staff Arts on Referral
• Occupational Health, including counselling
The Psychology service has active links with the Bath Doctoral training Programme in Clinical Psychology, offering a workshop on staff wellbeing as well as placements for final year trainees and opportunities for service-development projects / research.
• Work in close liaison with all psychologists and the admin service providing a flexible support role, often at short notice, to maintain the smooth running of the department, providing cross–cover as needed and as appropriate to the role
• Support the coordination and delivery of workshops, courses, bespoke team work, and other initiatives (e.g the Staff Trauma Support Pathway, ACT for Wellbeing course, StartWell>EndWell approach to fostering team wellbeing).This may, with experience and support, include co-delivering training and workshops to groups of healthcare staff.[AP1]
• Play a key role in the development of creative, engaging, and accessible staff information resources relevant to the service, working closely with both the psychologists and the admin team
• Contribute and maintain the information on the staff wellbeing intranet pages
• According to experience, undertake supervised clinical work as agreed with the designated supervisor; this may be 1:1 (including signposting colleagues to onwards relevant support) , group work (e.g. ACT for wellbeing) or team sessions
• Facilitate and coordinate ‘Breathing Space’, our drop-in mindfulness sessions for healthcare staff, managing individual distress and group dynamics as needed, under clinical supervision
• Supporting our assessment and evaluation processes, preparing, administering, and analysing self reported, validated questionnaire measures and key performance indicators;Maintaining databases and reports regarding the clinical, audit, and research activities undertaken by the department working with the support manager to prepare quarterly reports for key stakeholders, and others as needed; liaising with our research partner
• Co-develop team assessment and summary reports as part of bespoke team work
• Work to a Job Plan (reviewed at least annually) and linked to this, a professional development plan and annual appraisal.
• Fully participate in clinical governance processes, service meetings, clinical audit, improvement initiatives, observing local and national guidance.
• Committed to strong team working, fostering a climate of psychological safety, compassion, and learning within the service.
• A commitment to supporting one’s own wellbeing, as well as to supporting the wellbeing of the teams the post-holder works within
• Reliable, flexible, and organised
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Jun 2024