Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A first or upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

Desirable

• Further postgraduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis

Experience

Essential

• Experience of work with people with mental health problems or disabilities, or other relevant problems or disabilities (e.g. learning disabilities, organic impairment).

Desirable

• Paid work providing direct care to patients in a medical setting. Experience of working with people with serious traumatic brain injury. Capacity to and experience of administering complex psychometric tests and to use psychological equipment in accordance with standardised timing, stimulus presentation and response monitoring requirements. Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team. Experience of working with patients who display challenging behaviour

Knowledge

Essential

• High level of interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to work and effectively communicate complex or sensitive information in highly emotive and emotionally charged settings involving conflict and significant personal distress.

Desirable

• Knowledge of cognitive and behavioural principles and how these apply in practice. Knowledge of neuropsychology assessment methods and tools. Experience of collecting research data, including questionnaire design and interviewing. Experience using microcomputers and associated software for purposes of data analysis and reporting, including databases and statistical programmes such as SPSS. An ability to write articulate and comprehensible reports, letters and other correspondence.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).