Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Assistant Psychologist within the Young Peoples Team

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Job summary

The CAMHS Young Peoples Team are a specialist CAMHS service who work directly with young people up to the age of 18 years old who are looked after, adopted, unaccompanied asylum seeking, homeless or involved with youth justice. We provide support to young people who present with a moderate to severe mental illness within our multidisciplinary team.

We are advertising this new fixed term role (until April 2025) to join our team, this role will offer you the chance to work alongside our highly skilled professionals and develop your own therapeutic skills and understanding.

We are looking for someone who has pre-existing experience of working with vulnerable individuals and who is highly motivated to be an active part of this exciting new project!

This role will be based over 2 areas, within our core Young Peoples Team and within our new project with the City Local Authority 'staying close, staying connected' this is a Local Authority led pilot to ensure that young people who are under local authority care are well supported during their transition to adulthood. This post will include the design and evaluation of the health aspect of this pilot with monthly reporting to our colleagues within the City Local Authority.

Interviews for this role will be held on the 11th January 2024 at Westcotes House, we have a limited number of interview slots and this advert may be closed early when a suitable number of candidates have been recieved.

Main duties of the job

to support qualified psychologists to score and interpret psychometrics as part of broader neurodevelopmental assessment
to be supported to offer direct psychological interventions following specific treatment models; this may include taking an outreach based approach
to evaluate outcomes and present this to our partner agencies
to be involved with the design of a new pilot within the Leicester City Local Authority and to help evaluate this pilot.
to be part of our multidisciplinary team, including being involved and supported in discussing referrals to our service, formulations and collaborative plans of care for young people within our service.
to contribute to risk formulation and planning under supervision, for young people in regards to their mental health
to undertake assessments of young people with the oversight and support of a qualified member of staff.
to work closely with social care and their existing services.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

21 December 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£23,949 to £24,882 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

15 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-23-1351

Job locations

Child & Family Psychiatric Service

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

LE30QU

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the person specification and the job description documents which are attached below.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the person specification and the job description documents which are attached below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

- Accredited Degree in Psychology recognised by the British Psychological Society, with a 2:1 or equivalent.
- experience of work within health or social care
- Registration with the British Psychological Society with graduate membership (GMBPsS)

Experience

Essential

- a knowledge of psychological theory
- an interest in how people think and behave
- the ability to relate to a wide range of people, both patients and colleagues
- a sympathetic and patient attitude
- good writing and organisational skills
- experience of working within health or social care

Desirable

- experience of working within CAMHS or adult mental health services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

- Accredited Degree in Psychology recognised by the British Psychological Society, with a 2:1 or equivalent.
- experience of work within health or social care
- Registration with the British Psychological Society with graduate membership (GMBPsS)

Experience

Essential

- a knowledge of psychological theory
- an interest in how people think and behave
- the ability to relate to a wide range of people, both patients and colleagues
- a sympathetic and patient attitude
- good writing and organisational skills
- experience of working within health or social care

Desirable

- experience of working within CAMHS or adult mental health services.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Child & Family Psychiatric Service

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

LE30QU

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Child & Family Psychiatric Service

Westcotes Drive

Leicester

LE30QU

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)