Assistant Psychologist London, England
Job description
The Arc Children & Young People’s Day Programme is a brand new and innovative project whichaims to support young people with eating disorders and their families in the community. This programme aims to provide intensive support in the community in order to avoid deterioration and prevent admissions to hospital wherever possible. It focuses on empowering families with ways to support young people with eating disorders.
Assistant Psychologist
To support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor’s expertise and intervention as and when advised and directed. To run therapeutic groups, participate in Family Based Treatment sessions, provide mealtime support, participate in MDT and family review meetings; working alongside a supportive multidisciplinary team and supervised by a psychologist.
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.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within an innovative and brand new CNWL eating disorders service. We are offering a permanent Assistant Psychologist post within the new Children & Young People's Day Programme at Chelsea. This position involves supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of young clients and their families within the service; conducting audits; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist and supported by a team of Consultant Psychiatrist, Family Therapist, Occupational Therapist and Nurses, drawing upon their supervisor’s expertise and intervention as and when advised and directed; and assisting in clinically related administration, developing research projects, providing teaching, and other project work as required.
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
1. To undertake, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including neuropsychological, tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
2. To assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings.
3. To assist, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the coordination and running of protocol-driven treatments such as guided self-help.
4. To assist, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
5. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
6. To support patients and families during day patient activities, such as mealtimes, deliver therapeutic groups with young people and parent groups.
Teaching, training and supervision
1. In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
2. To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS as agreed with the psychologist to whom they are accountable.
3. To develop skills and competencies that assist in the delivery of current duties.
4. To contribute, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, to the training and support of other staff in psychological care.
