Assistant Psychologist

The post holder will play a key role in supporting the work of the teams. Supported by lead clinicians in each team, the post holder's responsibilities will include supporting staff with the collection and monitoring of routine outcome measures, collecting and analysing data for service reports and providing mentoring to undergraduate students on placement. The candidate will be an active member of the MDTs, supporting their work in the assessment and management of clinical caseloads. There will also be opportunities for direct clinical work including the possibility to join clinicians in their community settings, supporting them in assessing, planning, and providing care and treatment to individual children & young people and their families. There will be some opportunities for 1:1 assessments and interventions with parents and young people.

An opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Psychologist to join the Schools and Youth Justice Teams in Islington CAMHS. We offer multidisciplinary, community based CAMHS provision specifically designed to reduce barriers for families to accessing CAMHS. A key component of the work of both teams is close working with colleagues in partner agencies and it is an exciting opportunity to learn more about delivering evidence based CAMHS assessments and interventions in multi agency settings. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and committed psychology graduate who has relevant experience and interest in working with children, young people and families who have mental health or emotional wellbeing difficulties. This permanent post will be based across two Islington CAMHS services, the CAMHS in Schools Team and the CAMHS in Youth Justice Team . There will be also some opportunities to support the work of the MDT delivering CAMHS into the Pupil Referral Units.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.