Assistant Psychologist

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The role will include providing coordination to the autism assessment pathway and supporting assessments across the service, liaison with systems around the child/young person to gather information and support formulation, alongside delivery of follow up clinics to families. The role also includes supporting other aspects of the autism assessment pathway which may include developing family resources, teaching materials, facilitating a co-production project and assisting with overall evaluation of the pathway including administration of outcome measures, research and service development. You will also support the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the overall Paediatric Psychology service.

The post will be fully supported and supervised by Clinical Psychologists. Within MY Psychological Services, we are committed to supporting Assistant Psychologists to develop skills, knowledge and experience to support them in their future careers and provide regular continuing professional development opportunities.

Are you a Graduate Psychologist who wants to gain supervised experience in clinical work as part of the Mid Yorkshire Children and Young People's Autism Assessment Pathway? If so, this might be the post for you. We have four full time Assistant Psychologist posts available. It is an ideal opportunity to further develop specialist skills you need to succeed in your role and progress your career, in an growing service which is developing cross-Trust and multi-agency links., Applicants should ideally have some experience of working in clinical services or in other sectors that support people children and families.

It would be preferable if you are able to drive to support community work. We offer a flexible working approach and there are likely to be opportunities to work from home.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.