Assistant Psychologist - Eating Disorders

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 good data entry and statistical skills.
You would receive supervision from a qualified psychologist. As a department, we have close links to the clinical psychology doctoral training programmes at the IOPPN and Salomon's training centres, and frequently have clinical psychology trainees on placement.
The role will include delivering guided self-help, assisting with group interventions, and delivering some clinical work on an individual basis, under supervision. You will assist the Day Services team in running the weekly programme, offering meal support, and supporting patients with behavioural experiments. You will also be involved in delivering patient workshops and carer support groups. In addition, you will take a role in co-ordinating the departmental audit and contribute to data analysis and dissemination., Clinical and client care
+ To provide support for service users in the EDU service under supervision.
+ To provide patients with protocol-based psychological interventions, such as supported guided self-help.
+ 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 the Day Care team with meal support with patients and supporting specific patients with 1:1 support via behavioural experiments.
Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
+ To contribute to the effective working of the service by managing the outpatient audit databases and contributing to analysis/ dissemination 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.
Research and development
+ 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.
+ To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in the development in the Trust of evidence based practice.
+ Under guidance, to conduct surveys with service users and carers to gather views on service provision.
Teaching and training
+ 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.
Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
+ 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.
Care or management of resources
+ 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.
Record-keeping and information governance
+ 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.
General
+ 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
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
+ Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
+ Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
+ We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
+ That all applications for this post will need to be made online
+ That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
+ That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust
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Band 4
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Working for our organisation
As one of the few Trusts in London, we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Would you like to join a progressive, award winning, and multi-disciplinary team spearheading innovative practices in the treatment of eating disorders?
The Eating Disorder Unit (EDU) is internationally renowned for providing best practice, evidence-based care for adults with the full range of eating disorder difficulties. Outpatient treatments include guided self-help, group and individual interventions. We are the developers of MANTRA, now recommended as part of NICE 2017 guidelines for the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, and of FREED (First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders).
We offer opportunities for ongoing training and collaboration with colleagues across the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences at King's College London.
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range restaurants.