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Assistant Psychologist

Full-time
Job summary
We are looking for a confident Assistant Psychologist with a passion for delivering outstanding care.

You'll be working full time, 40 hours a week, making a positive difference to the lives of the people in our care at Cygnet Aspen House.

Cygnet Aspen House is a 20 bed service specialising in high support inpatient rehabilitation (level 2) for women who have severe and enduring mental illness.

Main duties of the job
At Cygnet, we support our people to grow their careers, gain new skills and keep stepping up.
Apply now to enjoy excellent career prospects while reaping the rewards of making a difference to others every day.

About us
Cygnet Health Care was established in 1988. Since then we have developed a wide range of services for individuals with mental health needs, autism and learning disabilities within the UK.
We have built a reputation for delivering pioneering services and outstanding outcomes for the people in our care.
Our expert and highly dedicated care team of 10 000 employees empower 2864 individuals across 150 services to consistently make a positive difference to their lives, through service-user focused care and rehabilitation.

Job responsibilities
We are looking for an Assistant Psychologist to join our team at Cygnet Aspen House This role will be working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00.

Your Day-to-Day
We are seeking an academically strong candidate to support and enhance the psychological care of patients at the service by assisting the Qualified Psychologist with:
  • Contributing to assessments, scoring and reporting (verbal / written)
  • Clinical formulation and implementing care plans for psychological treatment
  • Planning, delivering and evaluating individual / group programmes
  • Administration, audit, research and service development
We're looking for someone who is
  • Degree qualified in Psychology (2:1 or above) or equivalent BPS (British Psychological Society) Accredited
  • Preferably experienced in health care and/or in an Assistant Psychologist role
  • Passionate about learning and working as part of an interdisciplinary team
  • Qualified to Masters degree level or higher in Psychology (preferable)
Why Cygnet? Well offer you
  • Salary: £28,826.70 per year
  • Company pension scheme
  • A comprehensive employee assistance programme and discount centre e.g. NHS card
  • Free meals
  • Internal and external CPD opportunities
  • Opportunities to become involved in research
  • Clinical supervision and peer support
Contracted hours: 40 hours per week
Please note: successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

What next? If you care about making a difference we want to talk to you.

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.
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago

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