Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young Peoples Autism Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 301-KM-25-7516776
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Anglesey House
- Town
- Rugeley
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for an Assistant Psychologist in the Children and Young Peoples Autism Service.
The successful candidate will support the delivery of psychological care to Children & Young People within the CYP-Autism service, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the close supervision of a registered Applied Psychologist. This will require liaison with schools and professionals, observations, psychometric assessments and scoring of such assessments, delivery of group based programmes for CYP, parents/carers and psychological interventions for CYP under the guidance of the supervising psychologist.
You will also assist in clinically related administration, development of resources, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, administration of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work as required.
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of an HCPC registered Psychologist:
- To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with CYP, family members and others involved in the young person’s care.
- To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a CYP needs.
- To carry a caseload of individual service users requiring basic psychological interventions.
- To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
- To work with other staff to assess CYP and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree or higher in Psychology
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychology Society
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant clinical or research area
- Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, Autism, personality disorder and/or research design and analysis
- ADOS training or willingness to undertake within first 3 months
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with psychology and/or mental health CYP
- Work with Children and Young People with Autism, mental health problems and/or other disabilities
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary setting and multi agency setting
- Experience of research methods, audit or other service evaluation techniques
- Has worked with applied psychologists and has an awareness of professional standards/issues
Desirable criteria
- Experience of assisting in delivery of group based interventions
- Experience of training and undertaking psychometric assessments, psychological tests, rating scales and observations with CYP
Skills
Essential criteria
- High level of communication skills (written and verbal)
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of CYP with mental health problems or disabilities
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel etc)
- High standard of report writing
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to CYP, families/carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance
- An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to autism context
- An understanding of psychology applied to health care
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively
Desirable criteria
- Experience using computers for databases or data analysis, including SPSS for Windows
- Experience of using digital record management systems within the NHS such as RIO
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kellee Ward
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 0691
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