Assistant Psychologist

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Benefits

The below list of benefits are available to you from the start of your employment with us:

• Pension
• Blue Light Card
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Support gaining extra qualifications through our inhouse Learning and Development department along side industry leading experts
  

The below benefits are available after 12 months of employment:

• Life Assurance (x2 of the basic salary)
• Critical Illness Cover (x1 basic annual salary paid up front)
• Medicash (Money back in your packet to cover a wide range of medical, health and wellbeing expenses of up to £880)
  

We are looking for a forward thinking, motivated and enthusiastic psychology graduate to join our Integrated Therapies Team as an Assistant Psychologist. With our support you will promote emotional wellbeing and mental health in the young people whom we help and work with. You will have a passion for working with the most vulnerable children and young adults, with children in care and/or with learning disabilities. You will understand how to work both directly and indirectly to support the network around the individual and will join an organisation that is determined to offer bespoke, individualised and psychologically informed care.

Working for Phoenix in our Integrated Therapies Team (ITT) you’ll be a key player in one of the UK’s most innovative education and care organisations. Phoenix is an experienced provider of education and care services for children and young people across the Southwest and Wales.

The Integrated Therapies Team is employed directly by Phoenix and comprises clinical psychology, counselling psychology, forensic psychology, occupational therapy, counselling, creative arts psychotherapies, speech and language therapy and occupational health therapy. The team seeks to deliver easily and equitably accessible, emotional wellbeing, mental health and physical therapies for the individuals in its care.

We want to encourage a holistic approach to working with young people and young adults and are seeking an assistant psychologist that can carry a supervised caseload, deal with complex cases under supervision and offer a variety of interventions and training. Psychology graduates with experience of working with children in care using a network model are particularly well suited to the role. The role will involve travel across our sites in South Wales and the South-West (primarily Somerset and Mid-Devon).

Working in the Integrated Therapies Team at Phoenix is for you if you are excited by a modern approach to helping children and young adults. We would very much like to hear from you.

Principal Responsibilities

Responsible for supervised clinical work as part of the ITT, representing the organisation by providing support and guidance to team members and the wider staff group and ensuring a child and young adult focused service. The role is a collaborative one working with individuals and groups across professional and organizational boundaries.

Provide supervised clinical interventions and assessment, responsible for the systematic measurement of outcomes.

Ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all children and young adults who need it.

Provide supervised emotional wellbeing and mental health assessment and treatment services to children and young adults with a range of relevant complex needs, such as learning difficulties/disabilities, Autism, emotional social and behavioural difficulties and/or challenging behaviour.

Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider social care and mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence based treatments by clinical and care staff across the organisation.

Deliver a range of supervised therapeutic interventions, which may include parent work, group work, school/college observations of children and young adults, short term inputs and individual psychological interventions.

Person Specification

Essential

• Successful completion of a graduate degree in psychology
• Eligible for registration with the BPS as a graduate member
• Experience of working with children and adolescents with co-morbid difficulties and special needs. (i.e. combination of organic and emotional deficits, such as autism and trauma)
• Knowledge, skills and ability in working with a wide range of young people with learning, emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties
• Experience of working with children and young adults with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with children with neurodevelopmental and learning disability needs
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with Children in Care
  

Phoenix Learning and Care are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and Young People and expect all employees to share this commitment. This role is subject to enhanced DBS checks and appropriate references.

For an initial and informal conversation please do contact Dr Hannah Pittaway, Head of Therapies

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check and references

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