Job Description

An exciting opportunity has become available for an Assistant Psychologist in the Children and Young Peoples Autism Service.



The successful candidate will support the delivery of psychological care to Children & Young People within the CYP-Autism service, providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the close supervision of a registered Applied Psychologist. This will require liaison with schools and professionals, observations, psychometric assessments and scoring of such assessments, delivery of group based programmes for CYP, parents/carers and psychological interventions for CYP under the guidance of the supervising psychologist.



You will also assist in clinically related administration, development of resources, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, administration of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work as required.

Under the supervision of an HCPC registered Psychologist:

To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with CYP, family members and others involved in the young person's care.

To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a CYP needs .

To carry a caseload of individual service users requiring basic psychological interventions.

To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.

To work with other staff to assess CYP and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.



By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;



Supporting your career development and progression



Excellent NHS Pension scheme



Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave



Options for flexible working



Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave



Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources



If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients



Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate



Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates



Salary sacrifice bikes up to 2k



Free car parking at all trust sites



Free flu vaccinations every year



Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to 250 (if the criteria is met)



And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.



Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications



For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification