Assistant Psychologist inWhiteknights Campus inWhiteknights Campus PUBLISHED 11 DEC 2023
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The "must haves" for you to be considered for this role:
1. An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
2. Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties, and ideally the perinatal population.
3. Experience completing research, and the ability to complete clinical audits and service evaluation.
4. The ability to establish good working relationships, both with service-users and other mental health services.
5. Excellent time management and organisational skills when managing the duties and responsibilities.
6. A high level of interest and enthusiasm for working with this population is essential.
We are an evolving service and you can be a part of how we develop. We are proud of the excellent outcomes that our service achieves and are constantly striving to improve.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don't hesitate to call: Rosalind Brock, Principal Clinical Psychologist on or email: who'll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
INTERNAL ONLY - This post is open to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Employees Only
Interviews are due to be held on 31 October 2024.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join Berkshire Healthcare Birth in Mind. As part of Maternal Mental Health Services, BIM is a specialist service providing assessment and treatment for adults with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to their birth experience and/or severe Fear of Birth (medically referred to as tokophobia). Joining our dynamic and friendly team, you will work across BIM, contributing to both pathways.
The role is based at Erlegh House on the University of Reading White Knights Campus. The location has plenty of car parking with electric car charging points, access to green spaces, local shops and access to the University of Reading gym.
We offer a blended model of delivery including face to face and online working from our well resourced clinic space or from home when appropriate.
We are a growing, friendly team of psychological therapists and psychologists committed to providing the best care. Birth in Mind is a specialist service providing assessment and treatment for adults with Fear of Birth and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to their birth experience. This role offers the rare opportunity of working within a growing, specialist team, while having access to the support, resources and expertise of the wider service.
- As a valued member of our team, your role will combine clinical and service development components.
- You will be expected to support qualified members of staff with completing assessments and psychological birth plans, and if appropriate complete psychological interventions such as individual client psycho education sessions under supervision of a qualified staff member, or support group interventions.
- You will contribute to the completion of service development and evaluation projects and research including collection of clinical outcome measures, management of the clinical outcome measure database, conduct audits, and data analysis for service evaluation.
- You may be involved in developing clinical materials for the service and contribute to ongoing project work. There may also be the opportunity to work with our service user involvement group.
The "must haves" for you to be considered for this role:
1. An upper second class honours degree or higher in psychology
2. Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties, and ideally the perinatal population.
3. Experience completing research, and the ability to complete clinical audits and service evaluation.
4. The ability to establish good working relationships, both with service-users and other mental health services.
5. Excellent time management and organisational skills when managing the duties and responsibilities.
6. A high level of interest and enthusiasm for working with this population is essential.
We are an evolving service and you can be a part of how we develop. We are proud of the excellent outcomes that our service achieves and are constantly striving to improve.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don't hesitate to call: Rosalind Brock, Principal Clinical Psychologist on or email: who'll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
INTERNAL ONLY - This post is open to Berkshire Healthcare NHS Employees Only
Interviews are due to be held on 31 October 2024.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join Berkshire Healthcare Birth in Mind. As part of Maternal Mental Health Services, BIM is a specialist service providing assessment and treatment for adults with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to their birth experience and/or severe Fear of Birth (medically referred to as tokophobia). Joining our dynamic and friendly team, you will work across BIM, contributing to both pathways.
The role is based at Erlegh House on the University of Reading White Knights Campus. The location has plenty of car parking with electric car charging points, access to green spaces, local shops and access to the University of Reading gym.
We offer a blended model of delivery including face to face and online working from our well resourced clinic space or from home when appropriate.
We are a growing, friendly team of psychological therapists and psychologists committed to providing the best care. Birth in Mind is a specialist service providing assessment and treatment for adults with Fear of Birth and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to their birth experience. This role offers the rare opportunity of working within a growing, specialist team, while having access to the support, resources and expertise of the wider service.
- As a valued member of our team, your role will combine clinical and service development components.
- You will be expected to support qualified members of staff with completing assessments and psychological birth plans, and if appropriate complete psychological interventions such as individual client psycho education sessions under supervision of a qualified staff member, or support group interventions.
- You will contribute to the completion of service development and evaluation projects and research including collection of clinical outcome measures, management of the clinical outcome measure database, conduct audits, and data analysis for service evaluation.
- You may be involved in developing clinical materials for the service and contribute to ongoing project work. There may also be the opportunity to work with our service user involvement group.
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