Assistant Psychologist

To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing data collection, data analysis, and assessment under the management and supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.

• To participate in clinical governance and utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the area served by the multi-disciplinary Drug and Alcohol team.
• To undertake clinically-related administration and the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR)/Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) Psychosocial Inventions and Workshops.
• To provide duty assessments and interventions to clients of the multi-disciplinary Drug and Alcohol Service under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
• To work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
• To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.
The Clinical Psychology Department provides clinical psychology services to adults with drug and alcohol problems within the Borough of Hillingdon. To be able to deal effectively and sensitively with a busy clinical setting where there may be frequent exposure to physical and verbal aggression, conforming to national and local policies for Health and Safety and guidelines of appropriate professional conduct. 1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work. 2. To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects on a regular basis in order to help develop and improve service provision. This may include complex audits / service evaluation using qualitative or quantitative methods. 3. To undertake production of questionnaires, data collection, setting up of databases and spreadsheets, data analysis, and the production of reports and presentation of summaries to colleagues using IT and statistical programmes, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SPSS. 4. To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research using the internet and online databases e.g. Psych info, to assist qualified clinical psychologists in evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other multi-disciplinary team members. 5. To carry-out practice-based research using validated questionnaires, reflective scientist practitioner skills, etc, as routine.