Assistant Psychologist: Sponsorship

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Psychologist to join the Gloucestershire Community Eating Disorders Service. Your role with involve working closely with all clinicians delivering both assessments and evidence based treatments and wider multi-disciplinary team, to support the provision of psychological therapies and assessments.

In this role you will be actively involved in delivering low-intensity psychological interventions, service audits, assessments and will take a lead in clinically related administration tasks. You will work under the close supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologists. You will also work independently according to a plan agreed with a qualified Clinical Psychologist .

Opportunities for clinical supervision, training and development are available as well as involvement in service development and promotion.

Main duties of the job

Promote the psychological health and well-being of service users who access the Eating Disorders Community Service.

Under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, to provide psychological assessment, intervention, research, and evaluation services to individuals, or groups of service users

Under the supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, to assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, and development of audit and / or research projects, teaching, and project work.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Reference to Eating Disorders on application and references within interview

Experience

Essential

  • Previous mental health experience
  • Sound understanding of psychological interventions for working with people with an Eating Disorder

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 10 July 2025

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