Assistant Psychologist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,944 - £34,937 Pro rota per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7202485/294-CAMHS-7202485-FZ |
Summary
The National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service is part of a high quality comprehensive national service for children, young people, and their families up to eighteen years of age who are severely or profoundly deaf and have significant difficulties with their mental health. You would be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team; currently consisting of Psychiatry, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Nursing, Social work, and Family Therapy.
The role of the Assistant Psychologist is to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified clinical psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. The post holder will also assist in clinically related administration, conduct audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work.
The post holder will work in the London outpatient team including interface with other National Deaf CAMHS services (Kent and Cambridge for instance) and receive clinical supervision and support from the Clinical Psychologists within these teams.
• You will need at least a 2:1 degree in psychology, Level One BSL and good conversational skills in BSL,an understanding of the needs and difficulties of deaf people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities, experience of working with people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities,and good research skills (including up to date I.T. skills). Experience of working with d/Deaf people would be valuable, but we recognize that not all applicants will have had this opportunity. Tailored induction and training will be provided to enable you to work effectively with this client group.
Applications from people who have personal experience of d/Deafness and/or mental health difficulties would be welcomed.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our location:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
·To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
·To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems.
·To work with other staff to assess outpatients, develop individualised intervention / treatment plans and review their care.
·To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
·To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Jun 2025