Assistant Psychologist

The post holder will be a member of the Maidstone Children and Young People's Mental Health Service. The post holder will be required to identify, assess and manage young people who present with a range of presenting issues pertinent to the service. The post holder will be a member of the team and have support of other team members in the management of these cases. The post holder will be expected to attend and participate in team meetings. The post holder will support people and enhance the professional psychological care within the service, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor's expertise. To work according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist or multi disciplinary clinician, 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 post holder will support their peers and team manager and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.,

• To undertake, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of clients, including the use of self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
• To assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client's problems, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.
• To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
• To manage an ongoing programme of audit of outcomes from treatment involving measures administered to clients and families at multiple stages during their care journey.
• To analyse this data and contribute to the production of reports of outcomes for the team and for commissioners.
• To support the multi-disciplinary team at all stages of the research process including writing grant applications, data collection, data analysis and write up of results.
• To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
  
  We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.
Our Values 2025 - 2030 Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.They are:We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities.These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.