Higher Assistant Psychologist - Eating Disorders | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of people with eating disorders?
We would like to invite applications for the post of Higher Assistant Psychologist (Assistant Psychologist - Higher Level). These posts will be based at the Eating Disorders Outpatients Department (EDOPD/Day Services), Maudsley Hospital.
The EDOPD is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties.
Community outpatient treatments include guided self-help,groupand individual interventions.
The team is renowned for its high quality clinical and research contributions to the evidence base, and in 2017, won the prestigious BMJ Award for Mental Health Team of the Year. The team focuses on learning and development, and you would have the opportunity to work alongside qualified psychologistsand psychotherapistsand to attend weekly multidisciplinary team meetings, supervision, and training forums.
The post holder will provide individual and group psychological therapy interventions, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a qualified psychologist, psychotherapistor CBT therapist.
We are looking for enthusiastic people to be part of our well-established and growing service. The successful applicants will be engaging, approachable, motivated, committed to personal and professional development, and able to engage with people with complex mental health difficulties.They will be organised, with existing experience working with mental health care and good research skills.
As a department, we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programmes at the IOPPN and Salomon's training centres, andfrequentlyhave clinical and counselling psychology trainees on placement.
The role will include delivering low-intensity individual psychological interventions (such as guided self-help and 10-session cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders; CBT-T) andassistingwith group interventions, under supervision.You will be involved in delivering patient workshops and carer support groups. In addition, you will help contribute to the departmental audit and contribute to data analysis and dissemination. You will gain experience with assessment processes and working within a multidisciplinary team.
The team focuses on learning and development, and you would have the opportunity to work alongside qualified psychologists and to attend weekly multidisciplinary team meetings, supervision, and training forums.
As a department, we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programmes at the IOPPN and Salomon's training centres, andfrequentlyhave clinical and counselling psychology trainees on placement.
Our Trust headquarters islocatedat Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).
Clinical and client care- To provide support for service users in the EDU service under supervision.
- To provide patients with protocol-based low-intensity psychological interventions, such as supported guided self-help and 10-session cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders (CBT-T).
- To support protocol-based group psychological interventions for service users and carers.
- To assist psychologists in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials.
- To assist with undertaking physical health monitoring of patients, after receiving the appropriate training and under supervision.
- To provide relevant support to carers and families.
- To contribute to the effective working of the service by contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings, research and audit, and other projects where required.
- To act in a manner that supports a psychologically informed framework for the service.
- To participate in the team’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
- To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform the service and others in the development of Trust psychology and other services, training provision, and research activities.
- To undertake data collection, analysis, the production of reports and summaries, using IT and statistical programmes, to be responsible for audits and reports, under the guidance of senior staff.
- Under guidance, to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision.
- To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations or published articles.
- To participate in demonstrating work methods to newly recruited staff and to support their development of necessary skills.
- To receive regular clinical and professional supervision, in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
- To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
- To undertake personal training relevant to the post in agreement with the supervising psychologist and the manager.
- To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources.
- To be responsible for safe-keeping of databases and have copies of questionnaires ready.
- To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
- Under the supervision of the team leader, to maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.
- To maintain databases and enter data, and perform analyses and produce reports.
- To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations especially around meal times, weighing times, and holding professional and service boundaries. To support others involved in such situations.
- To work flexibly which may include offering some regular commitment to late shifts and early, within the overall Job Plan.
- To travel to other clinics and settings off the unit as appropriate and across the Trust when required.
- To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group and follow trust policies relating to its management
This advert closes on Monday 30 Sep 2024