Working in the psychological professions in mid and south Essex involves a wide variety of roles focused on promoting mental health and wellbeing, reducing psychological distress in patients and empowering individuals and communities to make a difference to mental health experiences.
You could work in clinical roles, counselling roles, educational roles, forensic roles, health roles or occupational psychology roles and there are many different pathways into these careers. You could also choose to specialise and work with adults, children, older adults, offenders and those with learning difficulties or physical health difficulties.
Those who work in the psychological professions will be closely integrated into multidisciplinary medical and clinical teams and will support patients to overcome barriers back to wellbeing and fitness.
To be employed in any psychological professional roles you will need to demonstrate a good standard of literacy and numeracy and for some roles, employers will ask for GCSE’s or equivalent in maths and English. Digital skills and qualifications are also highly sought after as many NHS and Social Care settings rely on IT based systems to manage their databases and patient information.
Working for the NHS or for Social Care in Mid and South Essex provides many opportunities to develop your skills further and there are a wide range of apprenticeships, in-house training and continuing professional development opportunities available that you can use to build your career.
There are also opportunities to develop your career within the psychological professions by taking on additional responsibility and you could become a team leader, supervisor or a manager.
Psychological professional roles have lots of face-to-face contact with patients and other healthcare professionals and once qualified, in some roles you are able to gain professional registration.
There are also support roles available in the psychological professions for those who are looking to start their career or assist with patient care without registration.
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