Assistant Psychologist
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/11/2025
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Description
The Tri-borough Learning Disabilities service in Kensington and Chelsea is a well-established team co-located with the RBKC learning disabilities social care team. Providing high quality services for people with learning disabilities. Within this team psychology plays a key role in the development and delivery of these services.
We are seeking an assistant psychologist with a keen interest in working in adult learning disability services. You will demonstrate knowledge and/or experience of the context of services for individuals with learning disabilities and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will undertake work directly with service users with learning disabilities, autism and challenging behaviour, their carers, family members and other agencies and indirectly as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The person appointed will have a Psychology Degree (first class) or a Masters Degree in Psychology. Knowledge of research methodology, computer literacy, experience of data analysis, and a high level of written communication skills are required.
The service good links with the North London Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, to which it regularly provides clinical placements to doctoral trainees.
Under close supervision to undertake protocol based psychological assessments of service users. This may include applying psychological tests, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a service users problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings.
To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups.
To work with other staff in assessing service users needs and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
Just as we care about our patients well-being, we care about yours!
We Can Offer You
A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what its like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
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We are seeking an assistant psychologist with a keen interest in working in adult learning disability services. You will demonstrate knowledge and/or experience of the context of services for individuals with learning disabilities and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will undertake work directly with service users with learning disabilities, autism and challenging behaviour, their carers, family members and other agencies and indirectly as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The person appointed will have a Psychology Degree (first class) or a Masters Degree in Psychology. Knowledge of research methodology, computer literacy, experience of data analysis, and a high level of written communication skills are required.
The service good links with the North London Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, to which it regularly provides clinical placements to doctoral trainees.
Under close supervision to undertake protocol based psychological assessments of service users. This may include applying psychological tests, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.
To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a service users problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings.
To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups.
To work with other staff in assessing service users needs and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.
To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
Just as we care about our patients well-being, we care about yours!
We Can Offer You
A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what its like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
LNKD1_UKTJ
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