Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Psychologist

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Job summary

The Children and Young People's (CYPS) Directorate in Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Asst. Psychologist to join the well-established multi-disciplinary Community Team for Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities.This role will entail supporting the team's behaviour clinics and our ASD assessment pathway.

The behaviour clinics aim support parents and carers of CYP with LDs with behavioural challenges. This is an intensive service conducted over 4 appointments,resulting in the development of a behaviour support plan. This part of the role will include conducting the initial and follow up phone appointments with parents(inc completing outcome measures),carrying out observations of the CYP at home,speaking with school about the CYP,joining the behaviour clinic appointments with clinicians to assess and feedback around the CYP's behaviour and support plan.

The ASD pathway part of the role will include being trained in taking dev histories of ASD symptoms,report compilations for assessment clinics, completing school obs,as well as being trained to support in the completion of ADOS assessments. It will also include supporting the running of the ASD case discussion meetings, taking minutes and updating notes,maintaining and updating any databases and wait lists, updating resources and report templates in line with current guidance and supporting the general administration and running of the ASD pathway.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining at a very exciting time, as our services continue to adopt the Thrive Framework in close collaboration with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership. The CYPS-LD service is a Surrey wide community-based team providing support to CYP (age 0-18) with LDs and their families. The post offers excellent opportunities to work within a vibrant multidisciplinary team who work with CYP with LDs across the spectrum of need and in a wide variety of services. You will be joining a staff team who are passionate about improving the lives of CYP with LDs and their families, and are continually developing and implementing different approaches to meet peoples' needs.

These posts will be suitable for a passionate and highly motivated assistant psychologist interested in ensuring excellent psychological care is accessible for CYP with LDs and other complex needs from diverse backgrounds. Knowledge and experience of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Learning Disabilities (LDs) would be desirable. This is a permanent post (37.5 hours).

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

31 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,405 to £28,976 a year Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

325-5384600-CYPS

Job locations

Gatton Place (East) or Berkeley House (West)

St Matthews Road (East) / or 11-13 Ockford Road (West)

Redhill (East) / Godalming (West) GU7 1QU

RH1 1TA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

There are 2 posts that will be primarily located at one of our teams bases in either Redhill or Leatherhead which cover the East part of the Trust with the other post being located in Godalming covering the West part of the Trust and both posts will also include some county wide working as we are a Surrey wide team. Due to the travel involved, we can only welcome applications from people with a current valid driving license who have access to a vehicle for work-related purposes.

We very much look forward to receiving your application. If you are interested in joining us please contact Dr Joanna Chinn (Principal Clinical Psychologist) on 01737 288730 or Joanna.chinn@sabp.nhs.uk, for an informal discussion and/or visit.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person Specification

Experience Required

Essential

Experience of working in relevant area, either voluntary or paid.
Experience of working collaboratively with others.
Experience in designing projects and analysing the outputs.
Competent in the use of SPSS for Windows including setting up databases, statistical analysis and presentation of results.

Qualifications Required

Essential

Psychology degree accredited by BPS or Psychology degree accredited by BPS at 2.2 and additional relevant Masters degree or Degree plus Masters level conversion qualification accredited by BPS

Person Specification

Experience Required

Essential

Experience of working in relevant area, either voluntary or paid.
Experience of working collaboratively with others.
Experience in designing projects and analysing the outputs.
Competent in the use of SPSS for Windows including setting up databases, statistical analysis and presentation of results.

Qualifications Required

Essential

Psychology degree accredited by BPS or Psychology degree accredited by BPS at 2.2 and additional relevant Masters degree or Degree plus Masters level conversion qualification accredited by BPS

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.