Assistant Psychologist

Addiction Recovery Community Hillingdon (ARCH) requires an Assistant Psychologist to work with adults with drug and alcohol problems within Hillingdon.

To enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing data collection, data analysis, and assessment under the management and supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

To participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary Drug and Alcohol team., Clinical
1. To undertake Psychosocial Inventions and Workshops of clients referred to the Drug and Alcohol Service. This may include using motivational interviewing techniques, self-report measures, risk assessment, rating scales, direct and indirect observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care. Providing evidence-based therapies including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT to help people overcome their addiction).
2. To work in a highly emotive atmosphere with clients with substance use problems on a regular basis, and be able to communicate sensitive and complex information, whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times. May be subject to verbal aggression in individual sessions.
3. To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups, under the supervision of a qualified member of staff.
4. Duty assessments will require testing of bodily fluids, and therefore direct contact with urine and / or saliva.

Management, recruitment and service development
1. To assist in the design and implementation of service development projects within the service as required.
2. To attend meetings in which service developments are planned and discussed.
3. The post holder will be required to attend and contribute, where appropriate, to the regular professional meetings of the Adult Psychology Specialty and other Departmental meetings.

This is a unique opportunity to work in ARCH team work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers.

We believe that the best health is delivered by multidisciplinary teams working well together in partnerships with other teams and services to provide seamless care.

We have been offering assessments, BBV testing, harm minimisation, psychoeducation and motivational support delivered in a holistic manner to dual diagnosis clients, rough sleepers and service users in the criminal justice pathway.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.