Assistant Psychologist

Are you an existing Assistant Psychologist looking for a new challenge? Or an aspiring Psychologist seeking your first Assistant role? If you have the passion, drive, and commitment towards providing the very best psychological support to young people we would love for you to come and join us in Suffolk Young Adult Mental Health Service (YAMHS)!, Our service provides highly specialist mental health treatment to young people aged 18-25 experiencing moderate to severe mental health disorders. We're seeking three proactive, passionate, and motivated Assistant Psychologists to join our service; and have vacancies available in our three YAMHS teams, To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the nominated Specialist YAMHS service, to in summary:

• Support the overall psychological care and treatment of young adults within the service.
• Provide psychological assessment, formulation, and interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist; including the use of specialist psychometric assessments.
• Under supervision, to deliver brief psychological interventions.
• Support the qualified Clinical Psychologist in the development and delivery of workshops and training packages.
• Participate in audit, research, service evaluation, and project activities.
• For research evaluation role - to work alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to lead on implementation and evaluation of interventions within PD/CEN strategy. This will include the collation and evaluation of data, dissemination of results, involvement with broader research activity, training of teams, possible presentation at conference.
  
  If you have the drive to provide excellent care, the ambition to develop high quality clinical skills, and are willing to go the extra mile to help make a difference to young people's lives then we would love to hear from you.
  
  Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about. Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.


• 1 Full-Time Assistant Clinical Psychologist - East Suffolk YAMHS (Ipswich) - 22 month fixed-termcontract.
• 2 Full-Time Assistant Clinical Psychologist - West Suffolk YAMHS (Bury St Edmunds) - 22 month fixed-termcontract.
• 1 Full-Time Assistant Clinical Psychologist - split role: 0.5 Central Suffolk YAMHS (Stowmarket), 0.5 research evaluation for Personality Disorder/Complex Emotional Needs Strategy across YAMHS service