Assistant Psychologist - Tees Personality and Relational Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Personality and Relational (P&R) Service based in Teesside. The team supports individuals with complex emotional needs and works with staff teams across planned and urgent care services in Teesside. This role offers experience of working in a systemic way across multiple agencies, teams. It includes both indirect and direct ways of working and the ability to develop excellent working relationships with a diverse range of professionals., You could be involved in:

• complex safety and risk planning, including multi-agency safety plans
• contributing to multidisciplinary discussions about a patient's diagnosis, treatment and care plan
• Developing formulations by reading notes, investigating histories etcwith a focus on understanding risk
• working directly with service users supporting with safety planning, short interventions if appropriate
• Supporting the supervision of staff teams
• Supporting teaching and training on Structured Clinical Management and topics related to complex emotional needs.
• Evaluation of the service
• Literature reviews related to the client group
You'll be supervised by a registered practitioner psychologist with overall clinical responsibility for the patients you work with. You will also be provided with ongoing supervision to help you engage in self-reflection, seek and respond to feedback, and develop your professional knowledge and skills. You'll need to keep clear written records, draft reports, evaluations and document safety plans / multi-agency plans.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health. We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it. We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.