Assistant Psychologist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

To assist practitioner psychologists in the delivery of a specialist applied psychology service in an eating disorders day service including guided self-help and group work.

•To provide clinical work as required by the service, under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist.

•To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

•To work following clinical guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, while closely supervised and regularly seeking help from clinical/professional supervisor or manager.

•To provide meal support to service users.

To assist the team with meal support and meal modelling with patients and supporting specific patients with 1:1 support via behavioural experiments.

To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects to inform the service, Psychologist and others in the development of Trust psychology and other services, training provision and research activities.

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting supplies as needed.

Day Services are delivered from the Maudsley Eating Disorders Outpatients unit. The service is home to the FREED project (First episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) and continues to grow, providing evidence-based models, and is highly active in research.

Benefits

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here

· Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

· Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

· Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes

· NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

To provide psychological assessments for clients in the Eating Disorders Day Service under the close supervision of a practitioner psychologist.

•To provide protocol based individual psychological interventions for clients in the Eating Disorders Day Service including guided self-help, CREST and CRT.

•To arrange, schedule and provide protocol-based group psychological interventions for clients in the Eating Disorders Day Service.

•To assist the psychologists in the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials.

This advert closes on Friday 11 Sep 2026