Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join our busy team. You will play a pivotal role within the Op COURAGE Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Service within NHS North London Foundation Trust. Op COURAGE operates in a range of community settings to support consistent access to care and treatment.
This role will have a research-focused orientation, involving supporting senior staff members in audit, patient and service-related data collection, management and analyses, and research activities, ensuring that Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Research Governance and local Partnership guidelines are adhered to, resulting in the collection of high quality data. Your work will involve both patient-facing and data administration work.
You will help raise awareness of clinical outcome data collection amongst colleagues and service users, and will help to embed better data collection and management systems within clinical teams. You will also help in the writing up of service-related reports, presentations and research manuscripts for publication.
Your office base will be at St Pancras Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will liaise with the members of the multi-disciplinary clinical team to establish procedures for data collection and service evaluation/research focused activities. Part of this will involve attendance at various team and partnership level meetings.
The role will involve gathering appropriate assessments and rating scales, engaging in qualitative and quantitative data collection, as well as transferring existing data to electronic format and new databases. The creation and updating of appropriate databases to aid data collection and storage will also be included.
The post holder will also undertake qualitative interviews with patients, carers and relevant stakeholders regarding aspects of care and service delivery; and provide ongoing information, advice and support to patients (and carers/ families) regarding clinical data collection, service development and clinical research.
Maintaining adequate patient records and ensuring accurate data collection is key.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
Excellent internal staff network
The postholder will be aligned with our Values:
We Are Kind
We Are Respectful
We Work Together
We Keep Things Simple
We Empower
We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have a competent knowledge and understanding of the Department of Health Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care and ICH GCP Guidelines.
The successful candidate will also assess and evaluate the progress of on-going audits, service evaluations and research projects and provide regular updates to the senior clinicians and managers, local line manager and other appropriate staff.
Attendance at local and national meetings in relation to service development and research will also be required.
Good communication skills are required, due to engagement with various stakeholders, including veterans and their affected others who may have mental health difficulties, impaired communication skills and/or be distressed.
Communication also includes working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues in our team, and with a wide range of health and social care staff in hospital and community settings, and across the veteran sector.
The post holder will also support clinical assessments taking place across the Service.
For further details, please see the attached JD and PS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will have a competent knowledge and understanding of the Department of Health Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care and ICH GCP Guidelines.
The successful candidate will also assess and evaluate the progress of on-going audits, service evaluations and research projects and provide regular updates to the senior clinicians and managers, local line manager and other appropriate staff.
Attendance at local and national meetings in relation to service development and research will also be required.
Good communication skills are required, due to engagement with various stakeholders, including veterans and their affected others who may have mental health difficulties, impaired communication skills and/or be distressed.
Communication also includes working closely with multidisciplinary colleagues in our team, and with a wide range of health and social care staff in hospital and community settings, and across the veteran sector.
The post holder will also support clinical assessments taking place across the Service.
For further details, please see the attached JD and PS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Psychology or relevant field, or relevant experience and associated qualification in the area
- Masters degree involving health research methods
skill
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously using own initiative, and as a member of a team
- Evidence of accuracy and attention to detail in data collection
Desirable
- Ability to integrate complex data; make evaluation formulations and decisions
- Understanding of the needs of patients who have serviced in the UK military and their carers
Exper
Essential
- Experience of using mental health symptom/psychological/general functioning screening tools/ assessments
- Familiarity with the issues surrounding clinical data, particularly confidentially
- Experience of working with patients with mental health conditions and their carers
Desirable
- Previous use of databases
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Psychology or relevant field, or relevant experience and associated qualification in the area
- Masters degree involving health research methods
skill
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously using own initiative, and as a member of a team
- Evidence of accuracy and attention to detail in data collection
Desirable
- Ability to integrate complex data; make evaluation formulations and decisions
- Understanding of the needs of patients who have serviced in the UK military and their carers
Exper
Essential
- Experience of using mental health symptom/psychological/general functioning screening tools/ assessments
- Familiarity with the issues surrounding clinical data, particularly confidentially
- Experience of working with patients with mental health conditions and their carers
Desirable
- Previous use of databases
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
