Assistant Psychologist | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum (pro rata for part-time) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 9RW |
| Cwmni: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7246680/311-F811-25-A |
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We are recruiting an enthusiastic and compassionate Assistant Psychologist to join us at Walkerwood Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. The post will suit a motivated candidate who wishes to gain experience of promoting psychological perspectives within inpatient services.
Walkerwood is a 10 bed unit that provides support and therapy to men aged 18+ who are experiencing difficulties such as hearing voices, unusual beliefs, mood changes, and emotion dysregulation. Many of the men also have significant trauma histories and have been in contact with forensic services.
Walkerwood aims to provide short-term, intensive support that promotes independence and recovery, and works towards discharge to less restrictive environments. The psychology team provide a range of evidence-based interventions, which are delivered on both an individual and group basis. They also offer support to the team in the form of weekly Reflective Practice and Team Formulation meetings. We are currently trying to implement a trauma-informed approach on the ward.
For more information about our services please visit:
Walkerwood unit - psychiatric intensive care unit (Tameside) :: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical
You will support the lead psychologist to promote psychological perspectives on the ward. You will be expected to offer assessment, formulation and interventions to the men. You will also facilitate skills-based groups, such as mindfulness. You will also support the wider MDT to develop individual positive support plans with service users.
You will support the implementation of a trauma-informed approach on the ward by co-facilitating Team Formulation meetings and Reflective Practice sessions. You will also be responsible for administrative tasks such as preparing notes on individuals backgrounds, data input and spreadsheet management.
You will receive clinical and line management supervision from a Clinical Psychologist and join peer supervision with other Assistant Psychologists.
We would welcome applications for flexible working patterns / compressed hours; however we do not offer an option to work from home.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone’s value should be recognised and respected.
We proactively challenge injustices, and are the only Trust in the North West to publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
We are committed to staff development through shared learning, training and peer supervision. We are working hard at Walkerwood to reduce restrictive practices, and to provide trauma-informed care.
Our trust values are:
Kindness
Fairness
Ingenuity
Determination
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Jun 2025