Assistant Psychologist

at  South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic Assistant Psychologist aspiring to a career in psychology. The Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT) is an outpatient psychological therapies clinic which specialises in assessing and treating people with anxiety disorders using CBT. We take great pride in our work and treat local and national patients across a range of severities, to a very high standard.
Prospective candidates should be able to demonstrate an excellent academic track record, good organisational and communication skills, and the ability to assist in clinically related administration. We are seeking eager and creative individuals who will be directly involved in the running of the clinic and who are interested in pursuing a career in psychology. The post will include both clinical and administrative parts and the applicant will be required to demonstrate abilities in both areas.

Do please contact Dr Blake Stobie, Head of Service (blake.stobie@slam.nhs.uk) should you wish to discuss this post further.

• The post holder’s duties will include tasks which are predominantly clinical/clinical administrative and others which are predominantly organizational/administrative/reception duties in a clinic serving patients with specific anxiety disorders. We expect there to be a roughly 50/50 split between these broad groups of tasks.
• The successful applicant will be offered supervision by a qualified clinical psychologist and will have opportunities to observe treatment sessions and conduct clinical assessments under supervision.
• The applicant will ensure that systems are in place and working effectively to support service delivery, including monitoring of outcomes across primary, secondary and tertiary care.

The Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma’s remit includes the delivery and dissemination of empirically validated cognitive-behavioural treatments for panic disorder, specific phobias, social phobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. The clinic provides a model of best practice in the integration of research, development and clinical treatment. Most of the treatments delivered are considered to be at the cutting edge of developments in the field. The clinic is primarily an NHS treatment service for people with anxiety disorders. Some research is also done at the clinic, with a focus on identifying maintaining cognitive factors in anxiety disorders, enhancing the effectiveness of existing cognitive therapies, evaluating how well these programmes generalise, reducing the therapist time required for treatment without loss of effectiveness, developing and implementing effective programmes for training others, and identifying key change processes in cognitive therapy.

Please refer the Job description for details