Job overview
Do you have an upper second or first class honours degree in psychology?
Do you have experience of working with people with mental health problems?
We are looking for a new Assistant Psychologist to join an innovative service for adults with eating disorders, within the HOPE (Healthy Outcomes for People with Eating Disorders) Provider Collaborative led by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The Adult Eating Disorder Step Care Model is an innovative service operating across parts of South East and South West England. The Provider Collaborative offers an alternative to inpatient hospital care by providing an integrated step care approach and a new Tier 4 Clinical Model developed by our team at Oxford Health. It currently comprises a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, nurses, dieticians, admin and an art therapist.
The team works mostly virtually across the geographical footprint of the HOPE Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative. The team aims to enable more people to access services in a timely way, potentially avoid admission and follow a robust treatment pathway to ensure that needs are met in a therapeutic recovery-based treatment model.
The HOPE Provider Collaborative covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon & Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
Main duties of the job
The Assistant Psychologist role will support and enhance the psychological care of patients within the service by co‑facilitating psychological assessments and providing psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist. This involves contributing towards the delivery of evidence‑based treatment and providing individual psychological and group sessions. Completing and scoring psychometric measures, clinical note taking and maintaining a data set are other key tasks, but this list is not exhaustive.
The role offers the chance for an assistant psychologist to develop both clinical and research skills, and we actively support development for those wishing to go on to doctoral level psychology degrees.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust‑wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
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