Job summary
- Main area
- Assistant Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- 12 months (12 months Fixed Term Contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 364-A-8937
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Coombewood Mental Health Resource Centre
- Town
- Rayleigh
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Psychologist
Band 4
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated psychology graduate to work in the Adult Community Psychological Service across South East Essex. This is an exciting post which provides an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic and dedicated team. Services across EPUT greatly value psychology and are committed to embracing a multi-disciplinary approach.
The Adult Community Psychological service provides a specialist community psychology delivery into the 3 specialist mental health teams in South East Essex locality. Services are committed to enhancing the capacity to deliver psychological therapies and to utilise psychological skills within MDTs. Services have undergone influential restructuring processes to enhance the capacity to deliver psychological therapies and to utilise psychological skills within MDTs. The established Clinical Director of Psychological Services works closely with the senior management team to develop and improve delivery of psychological therapies, and to enable psychologists to develop and implement their leadership skills. This provides an environment for Psychology staff to develop their skills through high quality supervision and a supported CPD programme.
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Psychologist will work alongside qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Clinical Associates in Psychology providing an Adult Community Psychological Service to local community mental health teams. Psychologists provide direct client contact in the form of assessment and treatment, as well as providing consultation and supervision to other professionals.
The post-holder should have a passion for developing their clinical and research skills, and be keen to work flexibly and in a variety of settings. You will be expected to support qualified psychologists in the preparation and co-facilitation of group therapy programmes and the delivery of specific components of clinical treatment under close supervision. There will be a key responsibility to support the service undertake audit and research projects. There will be significant opportunity to gain experience of working in a multidisciplinary team, including liaison with allied professionals, contributing to the sharing of psychological knowledge and case discussion. Remaining time will include attending referrals meetings, participating in departmental forums and opportunities to shadow other team members. Your work will be closely supervised by an experienced psychologist and you will therefore also gain extensive experience of the supervisory process.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is an excellent opportunity for a psychology graduate aiming to undertake doctoral postgraduate training in clinical or counselling psychology in the future, and the service has an excellent track record of assistant psychologists securing a place on Clinical Psychology courses.
For an informal discussion or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Kerry Mayers, Consultant Counselling Psychologist and Head of the South East Essex Adult Community Psychology Service on [email protected].
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualification/Education
Essential criteria
- Experience in working in health related setting/s.
- Ability to communicate well with people with complex mental health problems.
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, health practice and/or research design and analysis.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for people with mental health problems.
Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
- An ability to interact effectively with staff from all disciplines. An ability to interact with client group.
- An ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Experience using computers for databases or data analysis.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as an assistant psychologist.
- Experience of facilitation/co-facilitation of groups.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kerry Mayers
- Job title
- Head of SEEACP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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