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Job Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and compassionate Assistant Psychologist to join the Staff Psychology Team at North Bristol NHS Trust, as part of our parliamentary award-winning Trust-wide Staff Wellbeing Service.
This Staff Psychology Assistant Psychology post offers a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic and organised psychology graduate with an interest in how to support colleague, team, and organisational wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work in close liaison with psychologists and the administrative team, providing a flexible support role, often at short notice. The post holder will support the delivery of 1:1, group, and team-based interventions, development of creative and engaging resources (e.g., leaflets and presentations), and play a key role in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of quantitative and qualitative data. The post holder will have the opportunity be involved in the direct clinical work, on an individual and group / team basis, as appropriate and according to experience, with regular supervision.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The Staff Psychology Team specialise in interventions to support staff members and teams across the hospital, at all levels. The main responsibilities of this post are to:
- Work in close liaison with all psychologists and the admin service providing a flexible support role, often at short notice, to maintain the smooth running of the department, providing cross–cover as needed and as appropriate to the role
- Support the coordination and delivery of workshops, courses, bespoke team work, and other initiatives (e.g the Staff Trauma Support Pathway, ACT for Wellbeing course, Staff approach to fostering team wellbeing). This may, with experience and support, include co-delivering training and workshops to groups of healthcare staff.
- Play a key role in the development of creative, engaging, and accessible staff information resources relevant to the service, working closely with both the psychologists and the admin team.
- Contribute and maintain the information on the Staff Psychology intranet pages
- According to experience, undertake supervised clinical work as agreed with the designated supervisor; this may be 1:1 (including signposting colleagues to onwards relevant support), group work (e.g. ACT for wellbeing), following up on staff referrals via telephone to gain more information or signpost, or team sessions.
- Facilitate and coordinate ‘Breathing Space’, our drop-in mindfulness sessions for healthcare staff, managing individual distress and group dynamics as needed, under clinical supervision
- Supporting our assessment and evaluation processes, preparing, administering, and analysing self-reported, validated questionnaire measures and key performance indicators; Maintaining databases and reports regarding the clinical, audit, and research activities undertaken by the department working with the support manager to prepare quarterly reports for key stakeholders, and others as needed; liaising with our research partner
- Co-develop team assessment and summary reports as part of bespoke team work
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate Degree in Psychology (1st or 2.1)
- At least 6 months post degree NHS experience as a psychology assistant (band 4/5), or other relevant post degree work experience within applied psychology e.g. research assistant.
- Experience in delivering 1:1 or group psychological interventions, under the supervision of a clinical psychologist
- Compassionate and skilled communicator.
Desirable criteria
- Some experience in using approaches that foster staff wellbeing
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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
