Senior Assistant Psychologist

Believe in People

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

An opportunity to make a difference. If this is what you are looking for we have an opening available for a Senior Assistant Psychologist with Change Grow Live at the Liverpool Service.

You will work to promote trauma informed practice within the team and wider service through consultation case management training reflective practice and research. Under the supervision of a Senior Psychologist you will offer a range of evidence-based psychological and psychosocial interventions relevant to address the degree of complexity experienced within this population of people.

Change Grow Live Salary Scale - Scale Points.90 - 36183.91 (based on full time hours)

Location Liverpool. We have 8 sites arond Liverpool and jobs will be based in anyone of these.

Contracted Hours 37.5 hours per week (FTE)

Category Clinical

Type of contract Permanent

Our model emphasises physical psychological and emotional safety and helps people to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment in their lives and in their communities. You will provide low level brief psychological interventions primarily in groups but also on an individual basis; input into service development initiatives; and assist our Psychologists who will provide regular supervision.

Our national Psychology Team provides connection peer support reflective practice and CPD. Our Assistant Psychologists meet regularly and we offer support in applying for further training. We embrace diversity equality and inclusion as evidenced by our commitment to building a team with a variety of backgrounds skills and views. We strive to nurture a culture where inclusiveness is a way of being not an initiative. If youre a team player who shares our organisational values of being bold compassionate and open this could be the role for you.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) wed love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them to the highest standard possible.

When completing your personal statement please remember to demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria and also consider the following points:

a. Why does this particular post appeal to you

b. What do you think are the major challenges in working psychologically with people who are struggling with substance use

c. How does your experience to date particularly equip you for this post

Does this sound like you If so we look forward to reading your application soon.

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.