Senior Assistant Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity to be join the STRIDES team which specialises in supporting young adults aged 16-35 with mild to moderate eating disorder presentations. You will be part of a friendly and supportive team that strives to help more people with eating difficulties access the care they need.

The ideal candidate has a passion for supporting young adults who are struggling with their eating, is compassionate, enthusiastic, quick to learn, and works well as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

You will have a role in the triage and assessment of new referrals to the team.

You will be trained to deliver short-term psychological interventions (guided self-help and CBT-T) under supervision and will hold a caseload.

In addition, you will collect and analyse data to help evaluate our service and work on projects to continually improve what we offer, in collaboration with those with lived experience.

STRIDES is part of a large eating disorder service including inpatient, day patient and community care.

The STRIDES team covers five boroughs so you can expect to your role to include travel, and working with diverse populations in different parts of London.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is hoping to pursue a career in clinical psychology. There are regular CPD events and you will work closely with psychological therapists.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.