Band 4 Assistant Psychologist

Come join our dynamic and passionate multidisciplinary team at The Haldon Eating Disorders Inpatient Service in Exeter. You will be joining a small supportive psychological team working with our 10 patients on the ward as well as supporting their families/carers and the wider team. There are opportunities to develop your psychological knowledge and skills across the clinical psychology competencies and to support the service as we develop.,

• Taking a lead on co-developing plans with patients and their family/carers to support their emotional and sensory regulation. This involves working closely with the qualified psychologists, ward OT, and nursing team.
• Taking a lead on ensuring patient outcome measures are completed, analysed and reported to the monthly Governance meeting.
• Taking a lead with our Senior Peer Support Worker to facilitate our weekly community meeting with all patients to ensure our service develops based on patient feedback.
• Taking a lead with our Senior Peer Support Worker to co-run focus groups and to design and analyse online surveys for service development activities.
• Supporting Senior Leadership Team with data analysis on service provision to inform service development activities.
• Taking a lead on organising, documenting and disseminating weekly team formulation sessions, including liaising with external agencies.
• Join the team in supporting our patients in the dining room to eat when they are often distressed and modelling psychological care in action.
• Facilitating psychological and psychoeducation groups on the ward, developing these and co-facilitating alongside the qualified psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
• Co-facilitating the monthly family/carers online group with the Family Therapy Assistant.
• Providing individual skills based sessions including mindfulness and exposure work.
  
  We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

About Devon Partnership Trust We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery. We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do