Higher Assistant Psychologist - Eating Disorders

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 ofHigherAssistant 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, group and 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 psychologists and psychotherapists and 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,psychotherapist or 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, and frequently have 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) and assisting with 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, and frequently have clinical and counselling psychology trainees on placement.

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2).