• Job Description

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  Job summary

  CAMHS Learning Disability Team

  Assistant Psychologist (1wte)

  This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and dynamic Assistant Psychologist who enjoys working collaboratively and interacting with other multi agency partners, children, young people and their families.

  The CAMHS Learning Disability Team is an exciting new team that will transform the support mechanisms for children and young people with a learning disability. The new team will be based at Erlegh House which is situated on the Reading University Campus with some travel across Berkshire.

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder will have a dual role:

  1. A key project focus on improving the use and collection of data (including service user outcomes and satisfaction) and producing innovative and simple methods to clearly show key stakeholders, in layman's terms, how our interventions improve the mental health outcomes for children and young people with a mental health condition and a learning disability. This will also include working with local and regional colleagues on how we demonstrate the impact of the service.

  1. They will hold a caseload of children and young people who will require evidence-based family support interventions. These interventions will be carried out in the family home and the community (as appropriate).

  About us

  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

  We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

  Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

  • Caring for and about you is our top priority
  • Committed to providing good quality, safe services
  • Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

  We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

  Benefits of working for us include:

  • Flexible working options to support work-life balance
  • 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
  • Generous NHS pension scheme
  • Excellent learning and career development opportunities
  • 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
  • Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
  • Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
  • Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
  • Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
  • Free parking across Trust sites

  If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.

  Date posted

  27 June 2024

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 4

  Salary

  £26,405 to £28,976 a year per annum (Incl. of HCAS)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  371-CFS266

  Job locations

  University of Reading, Erlegh House, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6BZ

  Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus

  Reading

  RG6 6BZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The must haves for this role:

  1. High level communication skills

  2. An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology

  1. An interest in working with people with mental health conditions and/ or learning disabilities

  3. Car user with ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation access to use of car.

  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. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

  Hear what our people say about working for our CAMHS service: https://bit.ly/CAMHS]

  If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

  We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Dr Karla Maguire on 07970678915 or email: karla.maguire@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl be delighted to help.

  We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The must haves for this role:

  1. High level communication skills

  2. An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology

  1. An interest in working with people with mental health conditions and/ or learning disabilities

  3. Car user with ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation access to use of car.

  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. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

  Hear what our people say about working for our CAMHS service: https://bit.ly/CAMHS]

  If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

  We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Dr Karla Maguire on 07970678915 or email: karla.maguire@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl be delighted to help.

  We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

  Person Specification

  Education/Qualifications/Training

  Essential

  • An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology.
  • Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

  Desirable

  • Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

  Continuous Professional Development

  Essential

  • Evidence of an interest in pursuing a career in clinical psychology
  • Evidence of an interest in child and adolescent mental health

  Desirable

  • Post graduate training in Positive Behaviour Support or Applied Behaviour Analysis

  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  Essential

  • An interest in working with people with mental health conditions and/ or learning disabilities.
  • High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
  • Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to children, families, carers and colleagues.
  • An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
  • An ability to interact with people with mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities.
  • Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
  • Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis, using Microsoft Office, MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint

  Desirable

  • High standard of report writing
  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities.
  • An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health and learning disability context.
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

  Additional Requirements

  Essential

  • Car user with ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation - access to use of car

  Person Specification

  Education/Qualifications/Training

  Essential

  • An upper second-class honours degree or higher in psychology.
  • Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society

  Desirable

  • Further post graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.

  Continuous Professional Development

  Essential

  • Evidence of an interest in pursuing a career in clinical psychology
  • Evidence of an interest in child and adolescent mental health

  Desirable

  • Post graduate training in Positive Behaviour Support or Applied Behaviour Analysis

  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  Essential

  • An interest in working with people with mental health conditions and/ or learning disabilities.
  • High level communication skills (written and verbal) including an ability to communicate and work in settings in which the atmosphere may be highly emotive.
  • Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
  • Ability to communicate sensitive information to children, families, carers and colleagues.
  • An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines.
  • An ability to interact with people with mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities.
  • Ability to work independently, reliably and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
  • Experience using computers for databases or data-analysis, using Microsoft Office, MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint

  Desirable

  • High standard of report writing
  • An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities.
  • An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a mental health and learning disability context.
  • An understanding of psychology applied to health care.

  Additional Requirements

  Essential

  • Car user with ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation - access to use of car

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

  Address

  University of Reading, Erlegh House, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6BZ

  Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus

  Reading

  RG6 6BZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

  Address

  University of Reading, Erlegh House, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6BZ

  Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus

  Reading

  RG6 6BZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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