Job Title: Assistant Psychologist
Agency: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 31,049 – £ 37,796 / Year

Job Summary

This role is offered on a fixed-term/secondment basis for 12 months.

*Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment*

The service is not limited to people with a confirmed diagnosis, although it is aimed at supporting people who are likely to have difficulties coping with overwhelming emotions, who may experience times of life-threatening distress. Importantly, people with complex emotional needs also have strengths and have a good prognosis for recovery.

This is an exciting opportunity for excellent people who are passionate about creating positive changes for people described as experiencing ‘Complex Emotional Needs’.

The service commenced in October 2021 and is now busy with a range of activities, including reflective practice sessions, especially within the voluntary care sector; carers’ support, and broad systemic interventions.

We are a close and supportive multi-disciplinary team, and we’re proud of our work, making small sustainable changes in service responses across Gloucestershire.

All of our work is underpinned by co-production, being trauma-informed, and working alongside colleagues with lived experience.

The successful candidate would be a highly valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, which includes a Clinical Psychology Lead for Complex Emotional Needs, a Psychiatrist, Senior Specialist Practitioners, and Lived Experience Practitioners.

Main duties of the job

The service is committed to achieving the principles of an ‘enabling environment’, becoming a positive and rewarding place to work and study, where people thrive, succeed, and achieve positive outcomes.

An assistant psychologist within our team will have training and support to be able to work within the following 6 projects that the team delivers:

OATS – Open Access Therapeutic Support. A peer-therapy group co-delivered with a voluntary care sector partner.

Family and Friends – We offer psychoeducation to families within a 12-week peer group and one-to-one, where indicated.

FERN – Frequent Engagement Response Network, a small sub-team within CEN. This focuses on improving responses to people presenting regularly to 999 services.

Training – We offer several training courses across the integrated care system to help build resilience and compassion within services to people with complex emotional needs.

Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) Much of our work involves supporting care providers to maintain placements for people who may present with high levels of risk and complexity.

Peer Support Our lived experience team provides one-to-one support to people receiving care from other teams within GHC.

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