Assistant Psychologist - HEENHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for four Assistant Psychologists (Band 4) to join the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology Services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. As a service, we are committed to increasing representation within psychological professions, as well as improving access to psychological professions for those who are currently under-represented in clinical psychology. These posts are being advertised with external funding from Health Education England (HEE) to provide a paid opportunity for individuals from ethnic minority groups, socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with caring responsibilities. During the application process, you will be asked about how you meet the criteria stated above. We ask that you include a brief statement on this within your application, which will be used as part of the shortlisting process. The posts will be offered on temporary, part-time contracts at approximately 0.5WTE for up to 7 months. At the point of recruitment, there may be some flexibility regarding part-time hours to support applicants who may be in other paid employment roles and/or have caring responsibilities although this cannot be guaranteed. Each role will primarily be based at one of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals sites, which include St Jamess University Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary and Chapel Allerton Hospital, and may require travel between hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

Able to demonstrate meeting criteria for the Aspiring Clinical Psychologist scheme posts are funded by HEE to provide paid opportunities for individuals from ethnic minority groups, socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with caring responsibilities An upper second class honours degree or higher in Psychology. Entitlement to Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society. Experience of working directly with service users in a health care or other relevant setting. High-level of developed communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate with service users, medical and nursing staff. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

Job description

Job Summary An exciting opportunity has become available for four Assistant Psychologists (Band 4) to join the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology Services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. As a service, we are committed to increasing representation within psychological professions, as well as improving access to psychological professions for those who are currently under-represented in clinical psychology. These posts are being advertised with external funding from Health Education England (HEE) to provide a paid opportunity for individuals from ethnic minority groups, socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with caring responsibilities.

During the application process, you will be asked about how you meet the criteria stated above. We ask that you include a brief statement on this within your application, which will be used as part of the shortlisting process.

The posts will be offered on temporary, part-time contracts at approximately 0.5WTE for up to 7 months. At the point of recruitment, there may be some flexibility regarding part-time hours to support applicants who may be in other paid employment roles and/or have caring responsibilities although this cannot be guaranteed.

Each role will primarily be based at one of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals sites, which include St James’s University Hospital, Leeds General Infirmary and Chapel Allerton Hospital, and may require travel between hospital sites.

The roles will include undertaking clinical assessments and delivering short-term interventions with patients and/or staff within one of the specialist areas: Medicine, Neuropsychology, Staff Psychological Support, or Surgical and Rehabilitation psychology services. Duties will include administering and scoring psychological tests; co-facilitating groups; assessing participants enrolled in research studies; maintaining databases; collecting and analysing data; and assisting with writing papers and research proposals. This may include using Excel databases, undertaking systematic literature searches and retrieval, data entry and analysis using SPSS, and liaising with a range of professional groups. The appointees will be supervised by a clinical psychologist.

The successful candidates will gain a good understanding of the role of clinical psychologists within Clinical and Health Psychology, with opportunities to shadow and observe qualified clinical psychologists. They will receive regular supervision, training and opportunities for continuing professional development (CPD). They will also be able to network with other Assistant Psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists on placement; there are also opportunities to attend weekly Special Interest Groups related to specific therapeutic models.

Please note that this advert will close as soon as we have received a sufficient number of applications.

What you will bring to the role

• Able to demonstrate meeting criteria for the Aspiring Clinical Psychologist scheme – posts are funded by HEE to provide paid opportunities for individuals from ethnic minority groups, socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with caring responsibilities
• An upper second class honours degree or higher in Psychology.
• Entitlement to Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society.
• Experience of working directly with service users in a health care or other relevant setting.
• High-level of developed communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate with service users, medical and nursing staff.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

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Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

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Sponsorship Eligibility To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

For questions about this job, contact: Please contact Dr Karen Hardwick, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, for informal queries regarding these posts at [email protected].

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.