Honorary Assistant Psychologist Review
by Livewell Southwest
Rating
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Skills
3.3
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
1.5
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Culture
2.0
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Your Impressions
2.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Livewell Southwest
- 7. Would you recommend Livewell Southwest to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Livewell Southwest
Overview
Majority of my work was admin based. I was able to shadow some in-person visits. I would complete telephone memory screenings with carers, was responsible for admin around monthly memory team meetings. Completed a chronology. A lot of admin around note taking from shadow visits and screenings. Shadowing visits with the PBS team and assisting with completing assessments and questionnaires for careers.
Skills
I have learned a lot of clinically used lingo. I learned how to work in a Multidisciplinary team. I learned how to write clinical notes and complete observation visits. I learned the risk assessments and safeguarding and other legal framework around my work. I learned how to engage with adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers. I learned how to complete several assessments and questionnaires. I learned about a diagnosis process for dementia.
Responsibilities
I was given a lot of responsibility in the tasks which were a lot of organisational tasks and admin tasks. I was not given responsibility in any clinical tasks and was promised I would be able to complete assessments on my own, but the service has not fulfilled their promise.
Support & Guidance
Not sufficient. I had weekly supervisions but they served more as case management. I had to ask for support in the middle of my placement experiencing severe burnout and was then scored down on my feedback form at the end of my year with an explanation that “I needed a lot of support” to complete those tasks when I believe that support should have been there in the first place.
Culture
In one of the teams there was a lot of conflict and I have got caught up in the middle of it as two sides of the conflict kept gossiping about the other. There was a lot of stress and burnout in the team and I kept hearing a lot of very difficult things the staff were dealing with.
Your Impressions
I learned a lot and met some amazing people however when looking back, I remember more bad experiences. At the end of the placement, I was also harshly criticised over my performance in form of skills scoring.
No
My advice is to get a job while learning with people with LD to have social work experience.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Voluntary, Social Work, Medicine
South East
October 2023