Assistant Psychologist, ASD & Learning Disabilities

Location: Northampton
Hours: Full Time (37.5 per week, standard working pattern 9-5)

Our Charity 

We are St Andrew's. We are a mental health Charity and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs. 

We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future. 

Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives. 

Your role with us

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to work in the Autism and Intellectual disability specialism which supports adults with neurodevelopmental disorders and complex mental health and forensic care needs. The pathway has a well-established psycho social treatment programme including ASD and LD specific treatments, offence focused therapy, a DBT service and neurodevelopmental disorder assessment clinic.

The psychology team plays a key role in service delivery and development, with research being a key activity with academic publications and presentations at national and international conferences.

Your profile

The successful applicants will join a large psychology team. Duties are varied and will assist Qualified Psychologists in psychological and behavioural assessments of patient needs, offering group and individual therapy sessions based on CBT and psycho educational models, maintaining research databases, carrying out clinical audits, delivering staff training.

Applicants should have a minimum of an upper second class honours degree in psychology and be eligible for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society.

Applicants should be very competent in computer skills, research methods, have high levels of literacy and numeracy, and have great interpersonal and communication skills. Previous experience working within a multidisciplinary team and an interest and/or experience of working with adults with autism, intellectual disability or offenders is advantageous, but not essential.

Reward 

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 33 days after 10 years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications. On-site facilities such as cafes all set within beautiful grounds.

Interested? 

If this sounds like you then we’d love you to apply here. 

Closing date: Monday 24th November