Assistant Psychologist

Job summary

Adult Community Psychological Services (South East Essex)

The South East Essex Trauma Alliance

1.0wte Assistant Psychologist (band 4) 1 year FTC. Based across Southend, Rochford and Rayleigh and Castlepoint. The role supports some remote working opportunity.

The South East Essex Trauma Alliance is an exciting and innovative whole-system facing initiative led by Psychological Services in EPUT. Our aim is to collaborate with local organisations to develop trauma informed thinking to improve the safety and quality of local resources working with people with experiences of trauma. It launched in May 2021 and is firmly established to enhance and develop trauma informed/responsive principles of practice across 30 local healthcare and wider community settings. This is part of a national agenda to head towards benchmarks in trauma-informed care.

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Psychologist role is creative and diverse. You will be involved in a range of interesting tasks and projects, which brings considerable variety to the role. This includes developing and maintaining strong and supportive relationships with local organisations and service providers, encouraging and assisting these to work towards signing up to and embracing the Trauma Alliance and its values. You will undertake initial and annual Trauma Informed Practice reviews with teams and organisations, which includes co-facilitating reflective conversations and collecting qualitative data indicating the level of trauma informed thinking and practice across partner agencies and services.

You will support qualified colleagues to organise and deliver reflective practice spaces, and be involved with the co-facilitation of introductory trauma related training modules to the local system. You will use your psychological knowledge and creativity to produce psychoeducational one-page Becoming Trauma Responsive Together newsletters and reflective Bitesize presentations which are delivered to the Trauma Alliance membership of various local professionals. You will regularly liaise with other professionals and those with lived experience to co-produce material with their expertise.

About us

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.