Assistant Psychologist

Job summary

Assistant Psychologist (AP) - Community Mental Health Team - Band 5

Full time, Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist (Band 5 - Full Time - Permanent) to join the Coventry Community Mental Health Team. The Community Mental Health Teams are multi-disciplinary teams that provide support and intervention to people with a range of mental health difficulties.

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.

The post holder will be part of a well established psychological therapies team and will be offered ample opportunities for individual and group work, working with MDT colleagues, research and audit.

The post holder will receive 1:1 clinical supervision from a Clinical Psychologist.

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.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, such as supporting psychological assessments and providing low intensity psychological interventions (group and individual) under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist in a variety of community settings.

The post holder will also assist in 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.

The successful applicant(s) would be line managed and supervised by a Clinical Psychologist but overall accountable to the Principal Clinical Psychologist.

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 groups

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.