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Senior Assistant Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £29,970.00 i £36,483.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Exeter, EX2 5AF |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9369-25-0457 |
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The principal purpose of this job is to support the team to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of people and their families who are being supported by the Adult Eating Disorder Intensive Home Treatment Team (IHTT) and The Haldon Inpatient Eating Disorder Service. The IHTT is a new service which aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team to promote recovery from an Eating Disorder. This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility, all under psychological clinical supervision (and additional other discipline supervision as appropriate e.g. Occupation Therapy): 1. Contributing to psychological assessment and formulation within the Eating Disorder IHTT and The Haldon, ensuring interventions are formulation based, with clear goals and outcomes are measured. 2. Developing and delivering individual, family or group interventions as appropriate. This includes working autonomously, under supervision, with individuals, families or groups offering low level psychological interventions and supporting their nutritional intake. This involves both travel around rural Devon to patients homes and use of virtual platforms for online work. 3. Working with the psychology team to develop and deliver the multidisciplinary therapeutic programme within the Eating Disorder IHTT programme which will involve travel around Devon and use of virtual platforms for online sessions. Under clinical supervision, working with the multidisciplinary team on The Haldon to develop and deliver the therapeutic programme. 4. Working with the Professional Lead to undertake service audit and research activities to support the Haldon and Eating Disorder IHTT Senior Leadership Teams. 5. Supporting clinical staff to improve the quality and efficiency of reporting on Clinician Rated Outcome Measures, Patient Rated Outcome Measures, Patient Rated Experience Measures and Family/carers Rated Experience Measures within the The Haldon Eating Disorder Service and Eating Disorder IHTT programme. 6. The post holder will receive regular professional and psychological clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy and with Professional Practice Guidelines set out by HCPC and the British Psychological Society. 7. The post holder will support and provide guidance to other assistant psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and other clinical staff as required within the team. 8. To work independently within a defined managed and occupational context. The post holder will work within professional guidelines and DPT procedures and protocols. 9. The post holder will be supported by qualified practitioner psychologists, including Clinical Psychologists and by senior colleagues within the specialism. The post holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their skills. Duties and Responsibilities Communication and Working Relationships Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional service on a day to day basis ensuring there is high quality communication and co-ordinated interventions. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice. Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health and social care staff in both hospital and community settings, communicating in a skilled and sensitive manner to manage complex and sensitive information. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice. Patients, family and carers: To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner with patients and family/carers who may be highly distressed and may have communication needs. Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers in Eating Disorder Services and in DPT, to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation. Planning and Organisation To plan and prioritise own workload with support from line management, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals, and service research and development activities. To provide psychology knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services. Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis In a supervised context, to undertake audit and research activities within the Haldon Eating Disorder service and Eating Disorder Intensive Home Treatment Team; to evaluate and disseminate the findings. Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy Assessment & intervention: Under supervision to undertake assessments and contribute to individual, family or group psychological interventions as appropriate. Under supervision to contribute to the multidisciplinary team therapeutic programme on the Haldon. Under supervision to develop and deliver the multidisciplinary therapeutic programme for the IHTT which involves travel around Devon and use of online platforms for virtual interventions. Consultation & guidance: To provide valuable feedback to individual clinicians and leadership team concerning therapeutic outcomes. To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families. Analytical and Judgemental Skills To be able to integrate complex clinical data and make clinical evaluation and formulations decisions. Policy, Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement Policy and service: To follow policy guidance in own role and to comment on proposed policy changes and service developments. Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources To be responsible for the safe keeping of equipment under own use. Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership & Management To participate in regular clinical supervision and regular line management supervision. To participate in regular reflective practice. Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust Practice Standards. To be involved with management and storage of outcome data. To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication. Responsibility for Research and Development To undertake service-relevant outcome development work To support project work including specific areas of audit, research or service evaluation Freedom to Act The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines In a supervised context, to work within clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of practice.