Assistant Psychologist - Gatwick IRC

Job summary

 

Learn something new everyday As the Assistant Psychologist, you will support and enhance the psychological care of prisoners covered by Practice Plus Group Mental Health Team; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified chartered psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. Your role will be to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collation and analysis of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work. You will provide support and assist the therapeutic work undertaken by Clinical / Chartered Psychologists and other disciplines, aimed at assessing and treating patients in a prison setting.

Main duties of the job

As a University graduate in Psychology you will be able to communicate at all levels working unsupervised while following policy and procedures. You will have experience of working with mentally disordered offenders, prisoners or psychiatric patients and have training in the theory and application of at least one therapeutic model. Your experience of running patient therapeutic groups, psychological interventions and therapies will help you to provide the best possible care to our patients. Youll receive an annual salary up to 26,400 per annum - depending on experience. We offer a whole host of additional benefits such as: cycle to work scheme, free DBS check, free uniform, an extensive training and development structure for all employees along with an employee recognition scheme.    It doesnt stop there we also offer a company pension scheme which we as Practice Plus Group also pay into, 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus 8 public bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time), NHS blue light card, discounted Costco memberships, access to Boundless memberships for attractions and parks, shopping discounts, free eye tests for computer screen users, an 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it.

About us

Practice Plus Group is a specialist provider of NHS services into prison healthcare across over 45 different prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We believe in putting the patient first, regardless of the environment or their history. The prison population is one of the most vulnerable and challenged patient groups in society and the delivery of their health care is conducted within often difficult and demanding environments. Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre is a detention centre based on the grounds of Gatwick Airport, Crawley, West Sussex. Practice Plus Groups mission is Access to Excellence.  Our core values are;  we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated we act with integrity we embrace diversity we strive to do things better together Patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when were at work. If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you!

Job description

Job responsibilities

 

Learn something new everyday As the Assistant Psychologist, you will support and enhance the psychological care of prisoners covered by Practice Plus Group Mental Health Team; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified chartered psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. Your role will be to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collation and analysis of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching, and project work. You will provide support and assist the therapeutic work undertaken by Clinical / Chartered Psychologists and other disciplines, aimed at assessing and treating patients in a prison setting.

Person Specification

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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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).