Assistant Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has become available for an Assistant Psychologist in the Children and Young Peoples Autism Service.
The successful candidate will support the delivery of psychological care to Children & Young People within the CYP-Autism service, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the close supervision of a registered Applied Psychologist. This will require liaison with schools and professionals, observations, psychometric assessments and scoring of such assessments, delivery of group based programmes for parents and psychological interventions for CYP under the guidance of the supervising psychologist.
You will also assist in clinically related administration, development of resources, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, administration of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work as required., Under the supervision of an HCPC registered Psychologist:
+ To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the person's care.
+ To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a service user's problems.
+ To carry a caseload of individual service users requiring basic psychological interventions.
+ To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
+ To work with other staff to assess service users and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
+ Supporting your career development and progression
+ Excellent NHS Pension scheme
+ Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
+ Options for flexible working
+ Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
+ Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
+ If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
+ Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
+ Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
+ Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
+ Free car parking at all trust sites
+ Free flu vaccinations every year
+ Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications