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Band 8a CAMHS Psychologist - ED Integrated Outreach Team

Employer
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London
Salary
£55,903 to £61,996 a year per annum Incl. HCAs
Closing date
12 Jun 2023

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National and Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (N& S CAMHS) are seeking to recruit three enthusiastic and skilled Band 7 clinicians, who may be Clinical / Counselling Psychologists, Family Therapists, or Nurses, to join the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED). Following significant investment by the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership Provider Collaborative, the postholders will play a key role in an exciting new addition to our service: a South London integrated eating disorder outreach team that includes the two CAMHS MCCAED community eating disorder services and SWLSTG.

MCCAED is a Specialist Eating Disorders Service for young people aged up to 18 years and based at the Michael Rutter Centre at the Maudsley Hospital. MCCAED has a strong and longstanding commitment to developing innovative treatment, with national and international recognition for our research and training. In addition, we offer specialist training opportunities within our team for a range of professionals from all mental health disciplines, including trainees on the MSc in Family Therapy and Clinical Psychology trainees on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, run by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide clinical services including assessment, treatment, and monitoring of outcomes and the provision of clinical supervision, consultation and training. The post holders will also contribute to service evaluation, research and policy development. There are many opportunities available within the service in relation to continued professional development.

We particularly welcome applications from Black and Ethnic Minority candidates as they are currently under-represented within the team at this level.

Key responsibilities:
  • Assessment and management of young people with eating disorders
  • Assessment and management of common comorbidities including depression, anxiety, self-harm and OCD
  • Contribution to audit and research
  • Contribution to service development and service management
  • Provision of clinical supervision, consultation and training to other professionals


About us

The newly established Eating Disorders Integrated Outreach Team (IOT) offers a service to children and young people aged 2-17 years with all eating disorders or eating difficulties that put them at risk of admission to inpatient eating disorder units.

Clinicians within the team will be embedded within the two existing CAMHS Community Eating Disorders teams, at SWLSTG and MCCAED. This integrated approach will enable them to access the collective resources and expertise of the larger teams, whilst also enabling staff to connect with the other outreach clinicians regularly.

Key aims of the IOT include preventing admissions, reducing bed days in general hospitals and inpatient units, and improving outcomes of community eating disorder treatment, by offering brief (max 4 weeks), targeted, evidence-based, intensive, support for young people and their parents.

Clinicians will see young people and families in a range of different settings, depending on client need: on paediatric / medical wards, in the eating disorder clinic, in general adolescent or eating disorder units, client homes, local community and schools.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide a specialist clinical services including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes in MCCAED.

Provide clinical/management supervision to more junior colleagues and consultation as appropriate.

To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

To undertake and support service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.

To work as an autonomous professional within relevant professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional leads and to decide how they are best achieved.

Deputise for the 8b, if required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualifications and Professional Registration: Entry-level qualification: appropriately registered Clinical/Counselling psychologist, Systemic Family Therapist, Psychotherapist, Nurse, CBT Therapist, IPTA
  • Completed training course in clinical supervision


Desirable

  • Training in family therapy for anorexia nervosa (FT-AN/FBT) and/or bulimia nervosa (FT-BN/FBT)
  • Training in CBT for eating disorders
  • Training in RO DBT
  • Training in multi-family therapy (MFT)


Experience

Essential

  • Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist with children, young people and their families under supervision
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in CAMHS
  • Experience of supervising and having completed the relevant training
  • Experience of providing teaching and training to professional groups
  • Experience of carrying out research, audit or service evaluation projects


Desirable

  • Experience treating child and adolescent eating disorders
  • Experience treating common comorbidities of children and adolescents with eating disorders, such as anxiety, depression, OCD, self-harm and ASC
  • Experience supervising more junior clinicians working with eating disorders


Knowledge / Skills

Essential

  • Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of evidence based therapies for child and adolescents
  • Advanced knowledge of mental health assessment
  • To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues


Desirable

  • Skills in providing psychological consultation to other teams / professionals / trainees
  • Skills in delivering group-based therapeutic interventions


Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital OR Springfield University Hospital

The Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, The Maudsley Hospital, De Crespigny Park

London

SE5 8AZ

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