Assistant Psychologist

If youre looking for stimulation and challenge this would be a great team to work for. Knowing that youre making a difference to peoples lives is rewarding in itself but our role offers much more than that. As well as helping you grow and develop your skills, we want you to feel proud of where you work and what you do. The Adult Community Eating Disorders Team (CEDS) in Bedfordshire and Luton is looking for a Principal Psychologist to join our team of dedicated, compassionate, skilled people with a shared sense of purpose to support people in Bedfordshire and Luton to a life worth living and improved health, via reduced eating disorder symptoms and distress, and improved functioning and safety. We are looking for an enthusiastic and well-motivated Psychology graduate to join the team. You will be based in a well-established community eating disorder service. Your time will be split between conducting audit and organisational related tasks and direct contact with Service Users who have moderate to severe eating disorders. The role includes delivering manualised individual and group treatments, managing databases, auditing the activity of psychologists and the multidisciplinary team, auditing outcomes from individual therapy and contributing to the formulation of clients mental health problems. We would expect the successful applicant to have a first or upper second class honours degree in Psychology Psychology, excellent organisational skills, competence with computers and sound team working skills with the ability to coordinate staff teams. We asked our service users and carers what they would expect from staff joining the team: Provide a safe space where they feel they can talk without being judged Be respectful, professional and trustworthy Be supportive and provide constructive help and advice Be patient, emphatic and understanding Be kind, positive, caring and sympathetic Be open and easy to talk to, as well as being firm but fair when needed **What people say about us**: My experience of working with several members of the team as a parent/carer representative is that they are always thinking of what else they could do for their patients, and are always prepared to listen to an idea. If youre looking for stimulation and challenge this would be a great team to work for. I really like that everyone in the team is really passionate about their work and helping clients. As a new team member I find the team all very helpful, supportive and approachable. Working within an integrated multidisciplinary team means that I can learn so much from every and all team members which I feel leads to better patient care and a very interesting job day to day" ELFT is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees, job applicants and service users. We are committed to ensuring that no one will be discriminated against on the grounds of race, colour, creed, ethnic or national origin, disability, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation or marital status. The Trust commits itself to promote equal opportunities and value diversity and will keep under review its policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, users and providers of its services are treated according to their needs. For management posts, to ensure that within their service area fair employment practice and equality of opportunity are delivered. **For further information please contact**: Dr Christian Koebbel, Senior Counselling Psychologist, on - To establish and maintain rapport with clients to enable the arrangement of meetings and engagement in the group activities of the service. - To be responsible for providing verbal and written feedback regarding assessments and psychological interventions to clients, multidisciplinary team members, families and carers of patients, some of which may be sensitive in nature. - To work collaboratively with other psychologists and multidisciplinary colleagues to contribute to the multidisciplinary care of services users.