Assistant Psychologist

Undertakes clinically supervised psychological assessment and intervention for adult service users at the People's Place, involving their families, carers, staff and volunteers as appropriate. Under supervision, plans, organises and delivers teaching and training on a variety of psychoeducational topics. Undertakes relevant research and audit under supervision of more experienced psychologists,

• Under supervision, conducts direct clinical assessment and intervention. Applying a range of psychological theories and models to analyse, understand and interpret complex situations and behaviours in order to formulate solutions and treatment which is tailored to individual's needs. This requires the capacity to engage in intense concentration for prolonged periods of time.
• The post holder works under the supervision of a more experienced psychologist at all times and engages in weekly supervision (in accordance with good practice guidelines). They remain responsible for following local policies and procedures.
• Under supervision, demonstrates effective communication of complex and sensitive information. This involves working alone with patients who may be in an emotional or distressed state and could present with physically and verbally challenging behaviour (and assessing and managing patients with sensory and/or cognitive impairment). This requires a high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
• Under supervision, provides psychoeducation on relevant aspects of physical health to staff, volunteers, service users and carers at the People's Place.
• Under supervision, takes responsibility for managing own time.
  
  A qualification eligible for graduate basis membership of the British Psychological Society (2:1 or above), An interest in biopsychosocial understanding of illness
• Committed to ensuring high standards of patient care within boundaries of role, Good level of interpersonal and communication skills
• Effective time management and organisational skills
• Computer literacy skills, including Microsoft Office, Undergraduate level knowledge of psychological models relevant to physical healthcare (particularly as pertaining to living with LTC and critical illness)
• Knowledge of neuropsychological assessments, Previous experience of working with people
• Ability to work effectively in a team
  
  Everton in the Community is one of the UK's top sporting charities, offering more than 60 programmes covering a range of social issues including health, employability, anti-social behaviour, crime, education, dementia, poverty, youth engagement, youth justice and disability.
In 2023, a purpose-built mental health and wellbeing hub, The People's Place was established as part of the charity's work. Since then, for nine months of the year, two trainee clinical psychologists from Lancaster University have been based there. Their work has involved working with individual service users, running groups, developing materials and bringing a psychological perspective to the broader work of the organisation. The psychologist funded by this programme will work alongside the trainees, helping to run groups, to support other programmes by bringing a psychological perspective and to develop materials for patients, and contributing to service evaluation and audit. Flexible working hours will be offered to accommodate caring responsibilities and, because the People's Place is on one site, access to a car is not required., Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

This is an exciting opportunity funded by the NHS England programme for paid opportunities for aspiring clinical psychologists to gain clinical experience. We have funding for one full-time post for six months and would welcome sharing this between two or more candidates., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.