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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Clinical Associate in Psychology (CAP), who is keen to join Tower Hamlets Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams and take on the challenge of working in a diverse borough with people on the Disordered Eating pathway.
The post-holder will sit within the Isle of Dogs and Stepney & Wapping Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams as part of the Psychology services.
Main duties of the job
Candidates should have an interest in working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties from a range of religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The post-holder will work closely with other Psychologists, and supervision will be provided by qualified Psychologists.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of a vibrant multi-disciplinary team operating out of our community offices based across the Isle of Dogs and Stepney & Wapping, and will liaise with relevant external agencies to facilitate and enable psychological interventions.
Alongside other Psychology staff, the post-holder will provide assessment and empirically-informed therapy to service users. In collaboration with more senior staff, the successful candidate will contribute to staff training and provide psychological advice (informal, ad hoc, and formal consultation) to other staff, support family members and liaise with primary and secondary care providers and various other statutory and non-statutory agencies involved in service users’ care.
The post-holder will be offered a range of opportunities for post-qualification training. The role offers excellent opportunities for developing skills in service-development and co-production.
Your service area is part of the wider psychology and psychological therapy provision in Tower Hamlets, and you would be joining a community of psychologists and psychological therapists working across a wide range of service areas. The department aims to develop and deliver our services through co-production with people with lived experience. We meet regularly and support professional development in a range of ways.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Maintain and implement knowledge of contemporary evidence-based practice through appropriate continued professional development
- Understand and recognise professional duty to challenge and report discriminatory behaviour
- Ability to analyse outputs from specialist psychological assessments across a broad range of patient needs
- Knowledge of the range of legal, ethical, professional, financial and organisational policies and procedures that apply to clinical research activities
Desirable
- Experienced in using a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies relevant to situation and service context that draw on specialist psychological tools to collect data to evaluate own practice as well as to enhance service delivery
- Understand and utilise learning styles, tools and techniques that can be used to support learning
- Able to understand and critically appraise best evidence and existing practice to inform clinical decision making where there is no agreed consensus on treatment protocols and evaluate outcome
Experience
Essential
- Understand how to analyse and appraise key theoretical concepts of psychological models of treatment both at individual and group level recognised in evidence-based national guidelines
- Communicate effectively, share information and check understanding using clear language and appropriate, written materials, making reasonable adjustments where appropriate in order to optimise people’s understanding
- Recognise and accommodate sensory impairments during all communications and the use of personal communication aids
- Take account of how conflicting and sometimes contradictory information from carers and other healthcare professionals, in emotive and challenging situations and contexts, may impact on the outcome of assessment
Desirable
- Apply and analyse a range of research approaches including both qualitative and quantitative methods in clinical practice
Qualifications
Essential
- Completed BPS [British Psychological Society] accredited CAP apprenticeship training programme including EPA to IFA standards
- Understand the range of behavioural change models, including health belief models, and interventions that promote mental health for the populations (e.g. Ecological Model; Community Psychology).
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This advert is for Clinical Associate in Psychology (Disordered Eating) with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £47,951 - £56,863 per annum Inc HCA. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 31 Jul 2026.
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