Assistant Psychologist • Stoke-On-Trent North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nAssistant Psychologist with North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust in Stoke-On-Trent, England, United Kingdom\n\nAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a 0.8 (30 hours per week) Assistant Psychologist to work in our Acute and Urgent Care Directorate. This is permanent contract based at Harplands Hospital in Stoke-on Trent working across two Acute Adult wards (one mixed-sex ward and a male only). The successful applicant will work within the multidisciplinary team, which includes a senior clinical psychologist, trainee clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists and support workers. Your role will include working together with the Senior Clinical Psychologist to support the wider multidisciplinary team through conducting assessments under supervision including cognitive assessments, facilitating psychological groups, supporting psychological interventions and working with individual clients to promote engagement in therapy. It is desirable that the post holder have experience of working within inpatient/hospital settings. This role would suit an aspiring Psychologist who seeks to develop their assessment, formulation and intervention skills, under supervision. This role offers opportunities for direct individual and group clinical work as well as contributing to service development projects. There will be opportunity to connect with other Assistant Psychologists working within the Directorate and in the Trust. There is a monthly Assistant Psychologist Group supporting career development. The principle duties of this role will be to assist the Psychologists to provide and enhance provision of Psychological Service across two Acute wards inclusive of individual and group work. Both direct and indirect work will be provided. The post holder will assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work. As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care. We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme”. The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kimberley Fisher Job title: Clinical Psychologist Email address: kimberley.fisher@combined.nhs.uk"}