Location: Exeter, EX2 4NU, Torquay, TQ2 7BA&Barnstaple, EX31 3UD
Salary: £26530.00 to £29114.00
Date posted: 19th June 2025
Closing date: 6th July 2025
Assistant Psychologist
Job Description:
Please note that this vacancy may close early due to the volume of applicants received.
Do you have a passion for working with adolescents and their families who are struggling with significant mental health difficulties? Would you like experience of working in a supportive and innovative team working across Devon? Are you already an Assistant Psychologist looking to broaden your knowledge and experience as a stepping stone into your Doctoral training in Clinical Psychology? Or are you a looking for your first role as an Assistant Psychologist following BSc/ MSc study?
We are pleased to be advertising for Band 4 Assistant Psychologists to join us at an exciting time of development of our Dialectical Behaviour Service (DBT) within the Mood, Emotions, and Relationships pathway. These are county-wide roles with a requirement to travel to our three locality bases in CFHD (Torbay, Exeter & Barnstable).
The posts will be an ideal opportunity for practitioners looking to develop their knowledge and skills alongside a highly specialised and committed team of clinicians delivering full programme DBT to a group of young people (14-18 yrs) within a specialist CAMHS provision.
This post is full time (1.0 wte) for 1 year.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
We will ensure that this role offers you the opportunity to:
- broaden depth of psychological knowledge and experience
- Supervised by clinical psychologist
- Direct clinical work
- Research & evaluation
- Delivery of evidence-based practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Gain experience in working with adolescents who have emotional & behavioural dysregulation disorders
- Gain experience in adapting psychological interventions for young people with Neurodiversity
- Gain experience in a wide range of psychological difficulties such as depression, self-harm, anxiety, eating difficulties, and trauma.
- Opportunities to develop skills in group work with appropriate training. This may involve working into late afternoon/early evening e.g. 5-6.30 pm
- Gain greater CAMHS experience with complex cases linking with the different Mental Health pathways including Urgent Care, Eating Disorders and Neurodiversity
- Opportunities to work within a service improvement, redesign and clinical effectiveness process
We are looking for people who can support the running of our skills groups, work alongside the clinical team delivering therapy, and Clinical and Management Leads to deliver a high-quality service across CFHD. Assistant Psychologists are highly valued in our service, and we are committed to providing you with a valuable experience towards career progression.
About us
Successful applicants will be employed by Devon Partnership Trust (https://jobs.dpt.nhs.uk/locations/working-here )
Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;
Torbay and South Devon FT
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.
Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.
Our children and young people say
We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
Contact information:
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Lynn Mcclelland
