Assistant Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Rampton psychology team as an Assistant Psychologist to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the National Learning Disability.

The post holder will have the opportunity to join a vibrant busy team of qualified staff and assistants and will be required to work alongside and under the supervision of qualified clinical or forensic psychologists in relation to one or more clinical teams.

Under supervision of a qualified psychologist the post holder will provide a specialist psychological assessment and therapy service to ward clinical teams within the Hospital. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy and will offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously as appropriate and within professional guidelines and Rampton Hospital's policies, procedures and service priorities.

Under supervision you will participate fully in multidisciplinary clinical teams in providing a service to their patients. Will develop knowledge and skills in general aspects of forensic clinical psychology and in particular the assessment and treatment of patients within relevant services. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the service to which they are allocated.