Assistant Psychologist- PMHTR
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This Assistant Psychologist role involves providing low-intensity, CBT-informed interventions to service users with mental health treatment requirements as part of their community sentence. You will manage referrals, conduct assessments, deliver 12-week one-to-one programmes, and facilitate emotional coping skills groups. The role also includes making presentations to other teams and auditing data for service evaluations. The team focuses on adaptability, inclusivity, and improving accessibility for an often-overlooked population.
Essential criteria
- A first or upper second-class honours degree in Psychology or related subject
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
- Experience of working with people with physical or mental health problems who may at times have the potential to respond to staff with hostility and aggression. Being able to respond to hostility and aggression in a professional manner
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in reports, letters, and other health correspondence to service users and their referrers
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to mental health context.
- Interest in working with forensic populations
- Experience of working in forensic mental health services.
- Experience of working with offenders, including people who may have committed violent and/or sexual offences.
- Demonstrable experience within a mental health setting.
- Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies and practices relating to mental health.
- High standard of reporting writing.
- An understanding of psychology applied to adult mental health problems.
- An understanding of low intensity interventions related to anxiety, depression, and other common difficulties.
- An understanding of the criminal justice system
- An interest in developing a career as a professional psychologist
- A first or upper second-class honours degree in Psychology or related subject
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Further post-graduate training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis
- Experience of working with people with physical or mental health problems who may at times have the potential to respond to staff with hostility and aggression. Being able to respond to hostility and aggression in a professional manner
- Ability to accept and use supervision appropriately and effectively.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to patients, carers, and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in reports, letters, and other health correspondence to service users and their referrers
- Ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to mental health context.
- Interest in working with forensic populations
- Experience of working in forensic mental health services.
- Experience of working with offenders, including people who may have committed violent and/or sexual offences.
- Demonstrable experience within a mental health setting.
- Understanding of current NHS/Social Care policies and practices relating to mental health.
- High standard of reporting writing.
- An understanding of psychology applied to adult mental health problems.
- An understanding of low intensity interventions related to anxiety, depression, and other common difficulties.
- An understanding of the criminal justice system
- An interest in developing a career as a professional psychologist
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £29,812 – £32,715 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Assistant Psychologist- PMHTR
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
An assistant psychologist for the Primary Mental Health Treatment Requirement Team provides low-intensity (usually CBT-informed) interventions for service users who have been court ordered to take up mental health treatment as part of their community sentence. We work with low mood, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, sleep problems, and other symptoms of psychological distress.
Our work is all about being adaptable, responsive, and caring in working with a population that is often overlooked. We are passionate about being inclusive and are constantly looking for ways to improve our diversity and our accessibility, both in how we increase our referrals from under-served populations and in how we offer our interventions in different ways to accommodate different need.
Main duties of the job
You will assist with presentations to different teams to help them to understand our work, why they would refer a service user to us, and how to complete a referral
You will manage the admin of referrals, including passing them on for screening to the Clinical Lead, completing screening assessments, liaising with various court-related personnel and probation staff, and tracking the data associated with the referrals
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