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Assistant Psychologist
| Posting date: | 24 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 January 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO31 7HD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9348-25-0340 |
Summary
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with young people who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or struggling to regulate or manage their emotions. To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated health and wellbeing service on a day to day basis. To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff across the secure estate and in those professionals across the winder system, working to support the young person. Communication should be skilled and sensitive in manner, often related to complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of young people supported by the Health and Wellbeing Team. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques and to foster reflective practice. To assist in the development of a psychologically informed framework of understanding and care, to the benefit of both the young people and everyone working across the service, where care takes place. To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers within the service and wider NHS trust. To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of providing care to young people with support and guidance to staff, carers and professionals, alongside service research and development activities. To provide psychology knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services To engage in assessments and deliver aspects of care/treatment plans within a supervised context for individuals, carers, families and groups. To demonstrate awareness of diversity issues. To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of a young person's care to colleagues, care staff, other service providers, supporters and families. The post holder is responsible for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines, working within clearly defined occupational procedures. To follow policy guidance on own role and to comment on proposed policy changes and service developments. To undertake service-relevant research and development activity agreed within the psychology service. To organise personal or service led research and development activities, as required. To assist the work of less experienced colleagues as required. To maintain accurate records. To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication. To tolerate and manage verbal abuse and occasional physical aggression. There is a mandatory requirement for PRISS (physical intervention) training. Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.