Assistant Psychologist

Role overview

An opportunity is available to join the Rampton psychology team as an Assistant Psychologist, helping to strengthen the psychological support provided to clients within the National Learning Disability service.

This role sits within a busy and energetic team of qualified psychologists and assistant staff, and the successful candidate will work under the direction and supervision of qualified clinical or forensic psychologists across one or more clinical teams.

What you will do

Working under supervision, you will contribute to specialist psychological assessment and therapy services for ward-based clinical teams within the hospital. You will also provide input on patients’ psychological care to colleagues who are not psychologists, while working independently where appropriate and always in line with professional standards, Rampton Hospital policies, procedures, and service priorities.

You will take part fully in multidisciplinary clinical teams and support service delivery to patients. The post is designed to help you build knowledge and practical skills in forensic clinical psychology, particularly in the assessment and treatment of patients within relevant services. You will also use research skills to support audit activity, policy and service development, and research within the allocated service area.

Assessment and intervention

You will carry out highly specialist psychological assessments for patients in the National Learning Disability service. This will involve selecting, interpreting, and combining complex information from several sources, including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report tools, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observation, and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in their care.

You will also support the delivery of a range of psychological interventions, both individually and in groups, across and within teams. As part of this, you will help refine psychological formulations using different explanatory models and keep several working hypotheses in mind.

Professional and record-keeping duties

You will be expected to provide safe, compassionate, evidence-based care in line with professional codes of conduct and trust policies and guidelines.

You will also maintain accurate records of care and treatment in accordance with trust requirements.

About the Trust

TeamNottsHC includes more than 11,000 colleagues who contribute every day across intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Services are delivered from more than 200 locations, including community settings, acute services, secure environments, and prisons.

The Trust is one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and among the largest employers in Nottinghamshire. It also provides national and regional specialist services, including the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

Workplace culture and support

The organisation offers a range of employee-led staff networks such as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion groups, Green Champions, Freedom to Speak Up, Health and Wellbeing Champions, and Menopause Champions. These networks support an inclusive working environment and help promote staff wellbeing.

Staff health and wellbeing are a major focus, with access to in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is also working to reduce carbon emissions through a specialist Energy and Environmental team, which supports legal compliance, improved environmental performance, and progress toward net zero.

Contact for informal discussion

For further details or an informal conversation, contact Emma Longfellow, Consultant Psychologist, at emma.longfellow@nottshc.nhs.uk.