North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Assistant Psychologist

The closing date is 02 July 2025

Job summary

Assistant Psychologist Posts - Band 5

Up to 37.5 hours per week per post (part time and full time posts may be available)

We have several vacancies for full and part time Assistant Psychologists in the Neuropsychology Team at Combined Healthcare, a CQC-rated 'Outstanding' Mental Health Trust. We have permanent and fixed term (to cover maternity leave) posts. Posts are available due to service expansion and assistants gaining a place on Clinical Psychology doctoral training (we have an excellent record of assistants progressing onto clinical training).

We have vacant posts in inpatient (major trauma and neuro-rehabilitation) and outpatient (neurology, neuro-oncology and neuro-community/Long COVID) neuropsychology services. The roles will involve contributing to the assessment, formulation and treatment of patients with neurological conditions.

There is some flexibility to allow home working at times, depending on service need. The post holder will receive weekly clinical supervision from a senior or consultant psychologist/neuropsychologist, and be part of a large, supportive team of psychologists. There is opportunity for teaching, research, clinical audit and CPD.

Main duties of the job

Core features of the roles will include:

Working alongside a Senior Psychologist/Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Multi-Disciplinary Team to provide high quality psychological formulation and intervention for patients

Administration and scoring of neuropsychological assessments, screening tools and outcome measures

Providing structured interventions under the supervision of a Psychologist/Neuropsychologist

Working with people who have complex needs which can present/lead to challenging situations or behaviours and risk.

Assistance with service development and evaluation

Supporting psychologists to offer group interventions

Previous experience of working with adults with physical, cognitive or mental health problems is essential.

Previous experience of working in a multidisciplinary team would be an advantage.

Inpatient and outpatient working

In person and online patient appointments

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Date posted

18 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

232-SPL-7257275

Job locations

Bennett Centre

Stoke-on-Trent

ST1 4ND

Job description

Job responsibilities

Assist in the delivery of neuropsychologically-informed assessment, rehabilitation and psychological support

Post-holders will work under the supervision of a Senior Psychologist or Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist.

Post holders will be expected to deliver test materials and to be able to concentrate for long periods of time to complete assessments, score and write up the results.

Post holder may be required to work with clients who are highly distressed, anxious or hostile and will experience sensitive situations frequently. The client group will include people with a range of organically induced behaviour management disorders.

Working independently to a plan agreed with a psychologist/neuropsychologist

To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits and projects, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

Managing own workload with support from a psychologist/neuropsychologist to identify priorities

Good organisational skills as well as ability to work to deadlines and produce good quality work is required

The ability to cope with psychologically distressing patient information is essential