[ref. f83030217] Assistant Psychologist - Bilston

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Assistant Psychologist Adult Mental Health. Employer: Cygnet Healthcare Location: Cygnet Hospital Sedgley House and Lodge Salary: £27,250 (per annum) Hours: Full-time (40 hrs a week) Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge, Wolverhampton Cygnet Healthcare is seeking to recruit a full time, experienced and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge in Wolverhampton.
This role will be working 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday. Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge offer a 34 bed high dependency inpatient rehabilitation service for men with complex needs as well as supporting 8 beds in our community step-down houses.
The service is designed to provide an environment that promotes mental health recovery by focusing on space, personal privacy and dignity Cygnet Sedgley House and Lodge is a multi-disciplinary and psychologically informed service. The focus is on nurturing an enabling environment to deliver a clinical model, developed specifically to meet the needs of service users within an operational framework, providing a high quality environment for promoting long-term recovery.
Job Role The role of the Assistant Psychologist will be to support and enhance the psychological care of clients within Sedgley by assisting the Qualified Psychologist in the delivery and evaluation of effective services that meet Cygnets Healthcare objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and carer needs and expectations.
To thereby help understand, prevent and ameliorate psychological distress and disorder and improve mental health and wellbeing of clients. The role involves the administration, scoring and report writing of psychometric assessments, standardised risk assessments, clinical formulation and supervised individual and group interventions.
Clinical supervision will be provided as an important part of personal and professional development, and additional training will be supported. Candidate Profile You will be a strong team player, confident, motivated and well organised. You will have a good understanding of the role of therapeutic boundaries, clinical risk and the importance of evidence-based interventions.
Patience and commitment are essential, but above all youll be someone with a genuine desire to help others. We are looking for someone with a good degree in Psychology, further postgraduate training in relevant area of applied psychology and mental health is desirable.
Previous experience of working within mental health services and settings is essential, and previous experience of working as an Assistant Psychologist and delivering 1:1 therapeutic work and/or group therapy sessions is desirable. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Please note this post may be closed early if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Closing date: 14th October 2024 Proposed Interview Date: 24th October 2024

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