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Job summary

Main area
Psychology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-8057024
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen Mary's House
Town
Hampstead, London
Salary
£34,186 - £37,389 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/07/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 4 Assistant Psychologist (Audit and Research)

NHS AfC: Band 4

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

This is an excellent opportunity for a psychology graduate with excellent research skills to gain experience of working alongside clinical and counselling psychologists in a multidisciplinary community CAMHS Eating Disorders team.  The main focus of the role is to support the team with our audit and service evaluation work, and so the successful candidate will be confident in collecting, analysing and reporting data. 

There is also opportunity to gain experience in psychological interventions for this patient group, to participate in our assessment clinics, and to contribute to service development.  An ideal candidate would also have an experience with this or related patient groups, and strong communication skills for working with patients and families. 

The post holder will benefit from being part of a large psychology team to support their development, and also from being part of the wider MDT, who have an active programme of supervision and CPD. 

Main duties of the job

To contribute to outcome monitoring and service evaluation of the Royal Free Hospital CAMHS Eating Disorder team
To develop and manage the existing departmental activity databases
To contribute to and carry out audit and research activities
To contribute to the clinical services of the department as required
To participate in the MDT assessment clinic through taking notes and drafting assessment and formulation letters
Where appropriate take on pieces of clinical work under supervision

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts with over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for more information about this role and working at royal free London NHS foundation Trust

 

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Minimum 2:1 degree in Psychology with eligibility for graduate membership with the British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
  • • Additional training in research methods

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of the use of standardised psychometric measures
  • • Experience of clinical audit including data collection, analysis and reporting
  • • Experience of statistical analysis and reporting
  • • Experience of writing clinical assessment letters
  • • Experience of working in a clinical team
  • • Experience of working within the NHS or related voluntary sector role
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of working within an MDT and multiagency setting
  • • Experience of working in a clinical service for children and young people or people with eating disorders

Knowledge and skills

Essential criteria
  • • Understanding of the use of standardised psychometric measures
  • • Able to perform descriptive and basic inferential statistics and produce graphs and data summary tables
  • • Excel and SPSS or equivalent statistical package
  • • Good IT skills – use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
  • • Use of bibliographic databases to conduct literature searches
  • • Able to work safely and effectively with clients under supervision
  • • Ability to collect relevant information from patients and families under our care
  • • Good oral and written communication skills including report writing skills
  • • Knowledge of psychological models of child eating disorders
  • • Ability to empathise with patients and their families
  • • An appreciation of the need to consider diversity, e.g. ethnicity, religion, disability in our work
  • • Familiarity with the issues surrounding clinical data, particularly confidentiality

Other

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting, and to be able to work effectively as a member of a team
Desirable criteria
  • • Interest and ability to contribute to service development

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Kate Pryce
Job title
Lead Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 7830 2931

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Address
Service Excellence Team
Telephone
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