Assistant Psychologist

Service Description:

The "Be Kind to Your Mind (BK2YM)" service provides evidence-based mental health support to school- and college-aged Children and Young People, staff, young adults, families, and other professionals within the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Be Kind to Your Mind (BK2YM) is a non-clinical, mental health and wellbeing offer delivered by HFEH MIND Youth Services. BK2YM’s non-clinical interventions and psychoeducation programme (Learn Well) offers a multitiered level of support:

• Preventative and early intervention for children and young people aged 5 – 25 through HFEH Mind Psychoeducation Workshops and assemblies.
• Training for school staff and other professionals.
• Therapeutic Arts intervention (x6 sessions) for students.
• Access to a digital support tool (self-help): WYSA.
• Access to wider digital/online support tolls (Including My Mind TV).

Purpose of the Job:

This is an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Psychologist to contribute to increasing and improving emotional and mental health provision within education settings for 5–18-year-olds, young adults (15 - 18), families, and other professionals within the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham.

You can download a PDF of the job description at the bottom of the page.

Key Responsibilities:

See job description for full list of responsibilities

• Delivery of Be Kind to Your Mind interventions across schools, colleagues and alternative education.
• Delivering whole school/year group assemblies and ‘drop-down days’ to educational establishments within the defined area(s) of operation.
• Facilitation with targeted outreach to H&F SENCO's/AP's, adapting content for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in collaboration with Educational Psychologists.
• Creation and delivery of education staff workshops based on provided training needs assessment form submissions.
• Outreach to schools/organisations, maintenance of Learn Well bookings.
• Co-ordination of targeted outreach/promotion on universal days related to Children and Young People’s Mental Health and issues impacting their mental health and wellbeing generally. (E.g. world mental health day, stress awareness week etc.)
• Coordination of outreach on universal days/ mental health specific days in line with HFEH Youth Services Calendar of events across Mental Health Support Teams Schools, Be Kind to Your Mind Schools and within the local Community.
• Co-facilitation of psychoeducation sessions and therapeutic/creative interventions with trained practitioners, Children and Young People and colleagues across Youth Services.
• Composition of internal, bi-borough, and education/youth settings impact reporting.
• Manage the escalation of identified referrals for Children and Young People (CYP) with more complex needs to appropriate services with guidance from Management and Youth Services Safeguarding Lead.

Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding:

We are an equal opportunities employer and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

HFEH Mind is committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing, and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.