Assistant Psychologist

Assistant Psychologist (Maternity Cover)

The Assistant Psychologist (Maternity Cover) role at Brighton & Hove Clinic provides an exciting opportunity to work with a dedicated team, treating young people with eating disorders and other mental health conditions. This temporary position offers the chance to develop specialist skills and contribute to assessments, interventions, and clinical administration.

Job responsibilities

- Contributing to psychological assessments and formulations

- Facilitating psychological interventions on a 1:1 and/or group basis to service users, monitoring and reporting upon their effectiveness

- Assisting in designing and delivering specialist training to others

- Developing individualised positive behaviour support plans with patients

- Arranging and co-facilitating the monthly family support group

- Maintaining clinical databases

- Completing outcome measures

- Writing reports for various audiences

- Service evaluation and other research tasks including collecting, analysing, and reporting upon statistics

- Undertaking clinically relevant audits

Qualifications

- A minimum of an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology conferring eligibility for Graduate Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

- Experience working with patients with eating disorders, or in a CYPMHS or inpatient setting

- Experience of maintaining office systems and undertaking administration tasks

- Creative thinking, clinical efficacy, and a strong commitment to working with evidence-based models of therapeutic intervention

- Strong organisation skills

- Good interpersonal and communication skills

- To meet professional practice expectations including the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics, and the BPS code of ethics and conduct

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services across England and Wales. As part of the Ramsay Health Care global network, Elysium Healthcare offers a unique approach to the delivery of care and opportunities for professional growth.

Location

Location: New Church Road, Hove BN3 4FH

Brighton & Hove Clinic provides a Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) Tier 4 Eating Disorder service for young people aged 12 to 18 years with a primary diagnosis of eating disorder, or an eating difficulty with a co-morbid presentation such as depression, OCD, anxiety or self-harm.

What you will get

- Annual salary of £26,530

- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays) plus your birthday off

- Free meals

- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance

- Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals

- Pension contribution to secure your future

- Life Assurance for added peace of mind

- Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

Note: Applicants who require sponsorship for this role and are applying from outside the UK will be eligible for an alternative International Relocation Package, further details of which can be provided on application.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

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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