This is an exciting opportunity for excellent people who are passionate about creating positive changes for people described as experiencing ‘Complex Emotional Needs’.
The service commenced in October 2021 and is now busy with a range of activities including reflective practice sessions, especially within the voluntary care sector; carers support and broad systemic interventions.
Job Title: Assistant Psychologist
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: 31,049 – 37,796 £ / Year
Location: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Deadline: 26 November 2025
Main duties of the job
The service is committed to achieving the principals of an ‘enabling environment’ becoming a positive and rewarding place to work and study, where people thrive, succeed and achieve positive outcomes.
An assistant psychologist within our team will have training and support to be able to work within the following 6 projects that the team deliver:
OATS – Open Access Therapeutic Support. A peer-therapy group co-delivered with a voluntary care sector partner.
Family and Friends – We offer psychoeducation to families within a 12 week peer group and one to one where indicated.
FERN – Frequent Engagement Response Network, a small sub-team within CEN. This focusses on improving responses to people presenting regularly to 999 services.
Training – We offer a number of training courses across the integrated care system to help build resilience and compassion within services to people with complex emotional needs.
Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) Much of our work involves supporting care providers to maintain placements for people who may present with high levels of risk and complexity.
Peer Support Our lived experience team provide one to one support to people receiving care from other teams within GHC.
Person Specification
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
- Prior experience with the service user group and experience in a clinical setting
Desirable
- Additional knowledge/ experience of research methodology
OTHER
Desirable
- Familiar with use of RIO
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Minimum 2:1 Hons Degree in Psychology
- Evidence of training / CPD to develop knowledge and theory relevant to work in the specialism
- Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Strong listening skills, empathic towards people in distress.
- Practical working knowledge of at least one relevant psychological approach (e.g. CBT)
Desirable
- Experience of group work
PERSONAL SKILLS ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential
- Willingness to work in the face of emotive and distressing problems, and possible verbal abuse / threat of physical abuse
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others.
- Calm but assertive to help effective communication when there are barriers to understanding and in circumstances where hostility, manipulation, conflict and antagonism could be present.
- Ability to recognise limits of competence and seek support when needed.
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