Assistant Psychologist

The Community rehabilitation team supports service-users who have previously required an admission to a psychiatric inpatient bed, at the point they are moving on from hospital back into the community either in their own homes or supported services. Many service-users we work with have diagnoses such as psychosis, bi-polar, severe depression/ anxiety as well as histories of trauma.

Our team works to promote mental health recovery and sustained improvements in quality of life. The post involves direct assessment, formulation and intervention work with service-users, joint working with the qualified psychologist and MDT colleagues as well as indirect working with families and staff teams. You may also be involved in audit, service development and clinical governance projects. The service has close links with the clinical psychology doctorate course at Leeds and regularly take trainees on placement.

You will be supervised by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the team, and our Trust also has a range of continuing professional development opportunities from one day workshops to fully accredited courses.

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We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

The team base is in Honley in Huddersfield, but the post covers the Kirklees area. As this is a community-based post it is a requirement to drive and have access to a car for work in this post. Our Trust encourages flexible working - the post is Monday to Friday but there would be some flexibility for the successful candidate if wished for to work earlier or later than a 9 to 5 pattern, including meeting service need.