Assistant Psychologist -Band 5 FTC (Internal)

Job summary

Assistant Psychologist (AP) - Personality and Complex Trauma (PACT) Service - Band 5

Full time, 12 Months Fixed Term

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join the Personality and Complex Trauma (PACT) service. This Assistant Psychologist post will support the Consultant Adult Psychotherapist, Senior Psychotherapists, and Mentalisation Based Therapists in the provision of specialist input to service users with complex mental health needs.

The Assistant Psychologist will be involved in the development of the Dissociative Disorders service supporting the creation and facilitation of innovative group interventions, as well as the ongoing running of the established Mentalisation-Based Therapy Programme. The Assistant Psychologist will be supported to develop qualitative research skills including designing and conducting interviews, as well as clinical skills in the co-facilitation of therapeutic group interventions. Other duties will include completing clinically related administration, collecting data, conducting service audits and evaluations to determine effectiveness of interventions as well as identifying areas of service development, and the dissemination of research outputs.

We are looking to recruit a psychology graduate who has relevant clinical experience and is interested and passionate about working with people with complex mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Psychologist will be involved in the development of the Dissociative Disorders service supporting the creation and facilitation of innovative group interventions, as well as the ongoing running of the established Mentalisation-Based Therapy Programme. The Assistant Psychologist will be supported to develop qualitative research skills including designing and conducting interviews, as well as clinical skills in the co-facilitation of therapeutic group interventions.

Other duties will include completing clinically related administration, collecting data, conducting service audits and evaluations to determine effectiveness of interventions as well as identifying areas of service development, and the dissemination of research outputs.

Please note that the expectation is that the post holder will be based in the team, although consideration will be offered to ad-hoc remote working depending on duties.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.