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Assistant Psychologist - Eating Disorders
The closing date is 10 July 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join the Gloucestershire Community Eating Disorders Service. Your role with involve working closely with all clinicians delivering both assessments and evidence based treatments and wider multi-disciplinary team, to support the provision of psychological therapies and assessments.
In this role you will be actively involved in delivering low-intensity psychological interventions, service audits, assessments and will take a lead in clinically related administration tasks. You will work under the close supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologists. You will also work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified Clinical Psychologist .
Opportunities for clinical supervision, training and development are available as well as involvement in service development and promotion.
Main duties of the job
Promote the psychological health and well-being of service users who access the Eating Disorders Community Service.
Under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, to provide psychological assessment, intervention, research, and evaluation services to individuals, or groups of service users
Under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and / or research projects, teaching, and project work.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake protocol based psychological assessments of service users applying psychological, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care
Assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and / or management of a service users problems, under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist within the hospital
Assist in the planning, coordination and running of staff support forums such as reflective practice, case discussion, formulation and CPD workshops
Work with other staff to assess service users and review their care in preparation of multi-disciplinary reviews
Attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings
Maintain appropriate records in electronic or hard copy in line with Trust policies and Professional guidelines. Includes workload data and using word processing skills to produce service user related reports
Person Specification
Evidence of undertaning Eating Disorders
* Reference to Eating Disorders on application and references within interview
Experience
* Previous mental health experience
* Sound understanding of psychological interventions for working with people with an Eating Disorder
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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