An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced assistant psychologist to work within CONNECT: The West Yorkshire Adult Eating Disorder Service. The post will be split between the inpatient ward (0.5wte) and the community team (0.5wte). CONNECT is an award-winning service that offers a multi-disciplinary approach to early intervention, community and inpatient treatment for adults with an eating disorder.
The community team offers assessment and a range of evidence-based interventions to people with eating disorders, including group and individual psychological therapies. Service users who require more intensive treatment can be referred to our 14-bedded inpatient unit. Both teams aim to work using a formulation driven approach to support people to work towards recovery. We have an active service user involvement group and aim to include patient perspectives in all service-related developments. There is a good governance and leadership structure across the service.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VACANCY WILL CLOSE EARLY IF THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS IS REACHED.
The successful post holder will need previous experience of working as an assistant psychologist in mental health or learning disability settings where they have delivered one to one interventions or group work or had the opportunity to help develop and use formulations with service users and teams. You need to be able to develop good rapport with people with complex mental health needs and have enthusiasm for working within this clinical area. The work will include working alongside a range of staff, contributing to formulation, conducting assessments, delivering interventions, using outcome measures and taking on tasks that will be linked with service improvement initiatives. There is opportunity to get involved with delivery of training and the post holders will be supported to attend relevant CPD to the post.
The Trust supports several assistant psychology posts which provides a rich internal network, including a monthly Aspiring Psychologist Forum. In addition, Leeds continues to be a diverse and exciting city to work in.
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers) . This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
The main duties of the job will be supporting the psychological work in both the inpatient and community eating disorder teams. The post-holder will support the delivery of group and individual psychological interventions. They will support formulation, both at an individual and team level and will work directly with service users and families, and indirectly with colleagues. They will also have a role in helping to collect feedback and outcome measures from service users and families about their experience with our service. The post holder will be supervised closely by psychological professionals.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
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