Suitable for a newly qualified or someone due to gain their HCPC Registration in 2024/25
Career Level C (NHS 7/8a)
Part time 30 hours per week (0.8WTE)
Career Level C / Expert - Salary: £44,342 - £57,383 dependent on experience
Trainee Psychologist Career Level B starting from £33,063
We are St Andrew's a mental health Charity which inspires Hope. We working together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve lives.
Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.
Come join us. Let's transform lives together!
The Northampton site hosts services that include: Neuropsychiatry (including Acquired Brain Injury, Progressive Neurological Conditions – Dementia and Huntington's Disease, and Older Adults); Low Secure and Specialist Rehabilitation (including PICU); Learning Disability; Autism; Medium Secure Forensics; CAMHS; and Community Partnerships, as well as our Academic and Research and Innovation Centres, offering great opportunities to broaden and develop your skills in the future. The Neuropsychiatry Division also regularly provides placements for undergraduate Psychology students and Clinical Trainees. The Northampton site has facilities linked to our vocational service, Workbridge, such as a café, garden centre, charity shop, woodwork and ceramics workshop, all co-staffed by St Andrew's staff and patients, and community-based service users. Other facilities include gyms and swimming pools for patients and staff to use. These are located within over 150 acres of beautiful grounds (please see link below for more details).
https://who-we-are/locations/northampton/
You and the role
We are currently looking to appoint a qualified or newly qualified Psychologist who has experience or an interest of working with complex and challenging patient groups, and will be eligible for, or hold HCPC registration.
Vacancy 1;
The ward: Fairbairn is a 17 bed ward for Deaf patients, and one of a few in the UK who provides treatment in secure care. The ward is part of a wider Deaf Service that deliver care to females in a blended service and males and females in the community. All staff get the opportunity to learn British Sign Language, and interpreters are also used. You will work with two part time consultant psychologists.
Vacancy 2;
The ward: Rose is 16 bed forensic neuropsychiatry unit for men with neurological and mental health conditions who require neurobehavioral rehabilitation in a forensic environment. Diagnoses include: Acquired or Traumatic Brain Injury, dementia, stroke, epilepsy, Huntington's disease (HD), learning disabilities, psychosis and personality disorder. We pride ourselves on managing the most complex cases and offer innovative therapeutic approaches.
Psychology is highly valued within the service and embedded within a multi-disciplinary approach. The post holder will be fully involved in the development, delivery and evaluation of a range of assessments and formulation-led interventions. You will be joining a motivated and supportive team with a variety of therapeutic knowledge, using approaches including CBT, CFT, DBT, EMDR, LMV, and other trauma focused care in both 1:1 and group formats.
There will be opportunities for joint professional work and involvement in clinical supervision, support and training and we actively support innovation and research. You can expect to receive good support, reflective practice and supervision and will play a vital part in the promotion of this service. Participation in continued professional development is encouraged, and divisional and charity wide CPD events are held weekly. Staff wellbeing is taken seriously recognising the importance for practitioners to care for themselves when caring for others.
In return
We offer an excellent benefits package including 38 days holiday, sickness policy on par with NHS, car lease scheme, free parking, cycle to work scheme, healthcare discounts, employee support programme and opportunities for research, training and CPD. The Birmingham site has an onsite gym accessible to staff in the evenings. It is on good public transport links to the City Centre accessing good transport networks across the West Midlands. The nearby suburbs of Birmingham are vibrant with a rich cultural provision including bars, restaurants, parks and a wide variety of sporting and social activity opportunities. The City Centre offers further opportunities including theatres and shopping options.
Interested?
We would love you to apply but if you do have any questions, please contact Samantha Pendry