Assistant Psychologist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing servicewhich has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention.The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Psychologists within the team and other team members, contributing to the delivery of high quality, evidence-based assessment and treatments. The role will primarily involve assisting clinicians with aspects of assessment and supporting treatment. The post holder will be involved in tasks related to data management, audit and clinically related administration (e.g. preparing therapeutic materials, scoring psychometric measures).

The growing specialist multi-disciplinary team is made up of psychiatrists, nurses, systemic psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a consultant paediatrician and a dietician. The service also hosts students from nursing, undergraduate psychology courses, trainee clinical psychologists, and medical trainees, fostering a welcoming culture with a focus on learning and development within the service. Team working is held at the core of the service with a range of processes to ensure individual team members feel supported in their work, including weekly team meetings and case discussion and fortnightly systemic case consultation. This support is all in addition to supervision with a Clinical Psychologist.

The service works closely with local Tier 4 services to ensure well-supported transitions to and from intensive day programmes or specialist eating disorder units. In addition, the service has good links with the local CAMHS teams across the five boroughs of South West London, enabling effective and joined-up working where necessary. As a service we have strong working relationships with our other CAMHS services including CECS, DBT and AOT.

The team operate mainly core hours 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and the work is mostly conducted out of the community clinic with occasional exceptions e.g. observations and supported meals at home; visits to paediatric or tier 4 services. The team are currently managing a combination of remote working (using video calls and telephone contacts) alongside some face to face working. Despite remote working you will be welcomed into the team as the service uses Microsoft Teams to continue with all meetings, systemic consultation, CPD, and supervision.

Suitable applicants will have experience in a CAMHS setting and have some knowledge about NICE concordant treatments for eating disorders and common co-morbid disorders such as OCD, depression and anxiety.

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together.We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients in the CYP Community Eating Disorders Service.

Work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection and analysis of data, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

Key Result Areas Clinical

Under appropriate supervision from a qualified clinical psychologist.

1. To undertake protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others

involved in the client’s care.

2. To assist in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the supervision of a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist. To assist in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.

3. To work with other staff to assess inpatients, community patients, day patients or residents and review their care in preparation for multi-disciplinary reviews.

4. To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

5. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.

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This advert closes on Thursday 23 Jul 2026