Assistant PsychologistinBracknellinBracknellPUBLISHED TUE 26 NOV 2024
- Co-facilitating and coordinating psychoeducational group interventions for adults with significant mental health issues.
- Collaborating with service users, families, and a multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement care plans.
- Monitoring and managing risks under supervision from a clinical/counseling psychologist.
- Conducting administrative tasks, audits, and service evaluations, ensuring all clinical documentation is accurate and up-to-date.
- A minimum of a 2:1 honors degree in psychology or higher.
- Eligibility for graduate membership of a core professional body (e.g., BPS, HCPC).
- Experience working with individuals with personality or emotional regulation challenges.
- Strong communication and IT skills, and the ability to manage sensitive information.
FIXED TERM POSITION - 12 MONTHS
Are you a passionate/driven Assistant Psychologist ready to make a difference as part of the East Berkshire Managing Emotions MH Transformation Programme.?
The Managing Emotions Programme (MEP) sits within the increased offer to the primary care networks in East Berkshire for personality disorder difficulties. It aims to address the needs of people with emotional regulation difficulties, who currently fall between gaps in provision of psychological services. The offer consists of 4 different psychoeducational courses at increasing level of complexity.
An Assistant Psychologist in MEP plays a key role in the co-facilitation of the group programme, offering wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, coordinating care plans for adults with severe and/or significant mental health problems.
The post holder will work with service users, families, carers and as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide specific, time limited group psychological interventions. Supervision will be done by a clinical/counselling psychologist.
This is a great opportunity to use your experience within the East Berkshire MEP Programme to jointly develop intervention plans, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment for our patients with significant mental illness (SMI).
The role is blended with an in person and some online group delivery offer, with travel to other sites in the East of Berkshire as needed.
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The key aspect of the role involves the co-facilitation and coordination of specific, time limited group psychological interventions, working under the supervision of a clinical/counselling psychologist.
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Supporting with the management and administration for a caseload of adults accessing the Managing Emotions Service, in close liaison with the Groups Lead and multidisciplinary team.
Other roles include:
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To assess/monitor risks and act to manage these in discussion/collaboration with supervisor to ensure these are appropriately and safely managed.
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To develop, plan and co-ordinate groups and new initiatives within the Managing Emotions Programme, as agreed by the service manager and clinical supervisor in the team.
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An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health context.
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You will undertake administrative, audit and service evaluation tasks and deliver reports and presentations associated with any such undertakings as needed.
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To ensure clinical records, letters, reports, and other data entry requirements are complete, up to date and of a good quality in line with relevant policies and are reviewed by the supervisor before being shared appropriately within the limits of confidentiality.
Clinical and Management supervision will be done by an HCPC registered clinical/counselling psychologist or BABCP accredited cognitive behavioural therapist.
About us
The "must haves" for this role:
- An upper second class (2:1) honours degree or higher in psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of a core professional body (BPS, BABCP, Social Work England, HCPC, NMC or equivalent).
- Previous experience working with people with personality difficulties or people with emotion regulation difficulties, or equivalent.
- Experience of providing direct care provision
- Awareness of evidence-based psychological interventions as relevant to this role
- High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotional
- Appreciation of the needs and challenges of people with mental health difficulties
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to service users, carers and colleagues
- Excellent IT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently to deliver work as agreed and managed at regular intervals
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: Jessica Bezance or Katharine MacKinnon on or respectively or email: or who'll be delighted to help.
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