Job Overview
*We are recruiting a
Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP) across adult inpatient wards in South East Essex (Rochford)*
We are very excited to welcome applicants for this award-winning new type of psychology role! Clinical Associates in Psychology will have completed a degree in Psychology and will fill an identified skills gap between assistant psychologists and qualified Psychological Practitioners.Successful applicants will offer evidence based psychological interventions on our adult inpatient wards.
These posts are fixed term post for 19 months (1 month induction plus 18 month apprenticeship), which allow the completion of the CAP Master qualification. The expected start date of this training is
November 2025. If successful in their training, CAPs can apply for a Band 6 CAP role upon qualification.
The CAP role is a new psychology career path in its own right. Therefore the selection process will aim to recruit those suitable for and committed to completing the training for this role. This advert may close early due to receiving a high number of applicants.
Main duties of the job
The CAP Apprenticeship is an nineteen month full-time training divided between work-based experience (up to 4 days per week) and academic teaching and study, which leads to a Masters level qualification.
The main duties of this job involve both direct and indirect work , including 1-1 work with service users and group interventions. The apprentice will develop excellent assessment, formulation and intervention skills as well as an ability to work short-term with Service Users who present in distress in hospital. The successful applicant will provide high quality, evidence based psychological interventions, often working with people who have long-standing or complex difficulties in our inpatient settings.
CAPs are trained to work with a particular service user group and in this case with adults with mental health problems. This post will be based on adult psychiatric inpatient wards in South East Essex, working alongside qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Assistant Psychologists as part of a psychological services contribution to the multidisciplinary team.
We are keen to hear from applicants with a Psychology degree who have a commitment to working in the local area and who are passionate about working in acute inpatient care.
For more information please see attached Job Description and Person specification.
Working for our organisation
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
- Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
- Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
- If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
- We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
- Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
- Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
- Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
- Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email
[email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
