Assistant Psychologist

A great opportunity has arisen to work as an assistant psychologist within the Adult Inpatient Psychology Service. We are seeking two enthusiastic aspiring psychology practitioners of the future who will work under supervision of a clinical psychologist with service users, psychology colleagues and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high quality psychological care.

This is an exciting time to join our service as major transformation projects taking place across the trust, including projects to improve the therapeutic milieu of the inpatient wards as well as the building of modern, purpose build hospital buildings.

The successful applicants will work under the guidance of a clinical or counselling psychologist to aid in the provision for psychology input to two adult acute inpatient wards. This will include working directly with services users to provide individual assessments and interventions, as well as running groups.

You will receive regular supervision from qualified psychologists and get the opportunity to be involved in teaching and service development projects., The candidate will work closely with the ward multi-disciplinary team by joining in regular team meetings. You will be responsible for facilitating regular psycho-education groups on the ward, drawing on skills from CBT and DBT frameworks. This will involve liaising with Occupational Therapy and activity coordinator collages to add to the timetable of therapeutic activities.

You will also conduct individual assessment and feedback to ward staff to develop astrong bio-psycho-social understanding of a person's difficulties. There will be some opportunity for brief therapeutic work under supervision.

You will be required to write summaries of your work in service users's electronic notes, as well as communicating with team members in meetings.

The successful candidates will have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrate that they can form good empathic relationships with clients who are acutely unwell, often experiencing significant distress, as well as the ability to form good working relationships with staff with different professional backgrounds.

Agile and flexible working:

For those preferring reduced hours, we will require a minimum of 2 days work per week. Due to the nature of work on the ward, you will be expected to come on site to work face to face with service users.

Normal working hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, however flexible arrangements can be discussed provided the majority of working time falls within these hours.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.