We have exciting opportunities immediately available for part time, 1 year fixed term Band 4 Assistant Psychologists who are looking to develop their clinical skills in the community. The service currently operates between Monday - Friday (9am-5pm)
You will be joining a busy, happy, high performing and well-regarded community based Surrey-wide child and adolescent eating disorders service based in Epsom, comprising of a Service Manager, Consultants, Nurses, Dieticians, Psychologists and Family Therapists and Psychotherapists.
You will be working alongside other Assistant Psychologists, Band 7 and band 8a Clinical Psychologist and the MDT to help deliver the core purpose of the service in line with the NHSE Access and Waiting Times NHS England Guidelines.
Access to the use of a car would be helpful.
Main duties of the job
To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, produce reports for CCG and NHSE on the Access and Waiting Times data, collection of statistics and development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work. You will support the existing system for collecting and analyzing outcome data in addition to developing a database to measure the outcomes of a new arm of our treatment pathway.
You will be required to carry out direct clinical work with young people with eating disorders. Further opportunities to support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing assistance for group work, psychological assessment and psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, working independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures., For full details of the Assistant Clinical Psychologist role please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.