Assistant Psychologist | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 July 2025 |
| Location: | Wickford, SS11 7XX |
| Company: | Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7257933/364-A-9056 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative and highly motivated Assistant Psychologist to contribute to support for staff following patient and staff safety incidents. Your main role will be to work alongside Principal Psychologists and psychological therapists within the staff wellbeing hub: Here for You. This post provides an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic and dedicated team whilst investing in an initiative that adopts a whole system, proactive approach to staff support. The role will offer opportunities for differentiated work and CPD/learning through working across the system.
The patient and staff safety incident work allows for continued development of our standardised response pathway supporting resilience in staff teams. The patient and staff safety incident initiative aims to provide person-centred, holistic, trauma-informed responses to staff, enabling colleagues to sustain fulfilling, productive and purposeful working lives.
The service as a whole is dedicated to responding to the needs of staff in regards to work-place stress and burnout and ensuring that all staff have a space to consider their psychological health needs.
The Assistant Psychologist role will be joining the project for one year, working 28.5 hours over 4 or 5 days. The post holder will play a pivotal part in both the organisation and co-ordination of support spaces and reporting outputs from staff support offers. The post holder will also be involved in mapping demand, leading in monitoring outcomes for staff support work and contribute to the development of evaluations, resources and updating on progression. You will work alongside experienced Psychology staff and have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues delivering staff support initiatives. You will have weekly supervision from a psychologist/psychological therapist also enabling a rich experience of the supervisory process.
We are currently a provider of staff support services to several NHS trusts across the area. We are seeking to develop the reach of our services, continuing to support staff across the wider system, beyond our own Trust.
This is an excellent opportunity for a psychology graduate aiming to secure a permanent Assistant Psychologist post and undertake doctoral postgraduate training in clinical or counselling psychology in the future.
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
We are keen to hear from applicants who are interested in staff support and development. The role will include taking a key role in improving and developing the ways that we reach out to staff, following patient and staff safety incidents. There will also be project work aimed at increasing our offer to the wider system.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about staff support, learning, and service evaluation. We see these functions as crucial to supporting the delivery of effective high quality care. We strongly value our staff and see their support, training and development as crucial in our trust.
We'd love to hear from you if you share this enthusiasm for staff support. We are particularly looking for candidates who are self-motivated and able to effectively manage competing workload demands. The post will require strong IT skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Due to the nature of the service the post holder will be accessing written material which may be distressing at times.
We place a high value on equality, diversity, and inclusion and therefore encourage applications from people from a diversity of backgrounds, those who are able to work with others who are different from themselves, and those who show consideration of how diversities impact our work as trainers, clinicians and researchers.
This post will require the ability to work across the Trust, and may require travel between sites, although a proportion of the work can be undertaken from home.
For more detailed information, please look at the Person Specification and the Job Description attached to this advert.
If you have any queries, please contact Amanda Lovitt, Tel:07581 072138,E-mail:Amanda.lovitt@nhs.net in the first instance
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Jun 2025