An exciting opportunity has arisen for 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologists or CBT Therapists in the Psychological Therapies Team within the Eating Disorders Service.

As a successful candidate, you will be working predominantly in the Outpatient Service which consists of a multidisciplinary team of Psychiatry, Psychology, Community Liaison Nursing, Dieticians, Occupational Therapy, and Peer Support. You will be providing treatment for Outpatients as well as supervising and managing Assistant Psychologists, Trainees and Band 7 Psychologists. You will also be supporting the Principal Psychologist and Therapies Lead by representing the Psychological Therapies Team in several MDT meetings weekly, managing the waiting lists, overseeing the planning for groups, assisting in recruitment. Being part of the Psychological Therapies Team, you will attend, and frequently chair, the weekly Psychological Therapies meeting, and receive weekly supervision from the PrincipalPsychologist to support your work. You will also attend fortnightly CPD sessions arranged for the Psychological Therapies Team as well as a monthly Clinical Improvement Group where the whole service meets on a monthly basis and a fortnightly reflective practice group.

Main duties of the job

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

About us

The St Ann's Eating Disorders Service (SAEDS), based at St Ann's Hospital in Haringey, is part of the Haringey service line of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, which alongside Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust forms the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP). It is a substantial, well-established facility with a regional catchment area that offers a specialist service to adults (18 years upwards) with a primary Eating Disorder. SAEDS provides a service for the three local boroughs of Haringey, Barnet and Enfield as well Camden, Islington, Tower Hamlets, City & Hackney and Newham, which comprises a population of five and a half million.

The multidisciplinary team in the SAEDS offers a comprehensive range of therapeutic interventions including intensive inpatient care, a day programme, community liaison work, and outpatient services. The Psychological Therapies Team, a significant part of the EDS, includes qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists, Assistant Psychologists, a Research Assistant, a Family Therapist and an Art Therapist. We also regularly have trainee Clinical and Counselling Psychologists on placement within our team. Managerial and professional accountability are to the Principal Psychologist who, in turn, reports managerially to the Service Lead of the EDS.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or BPS accredited equivalent), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Or have a post graduate diploma/degree in CBT and be fully accredited with the BABCP.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, including CBT.
• HCPC registration (Clinical/Counselling Psychologist) or BABCP accreditation (CBT therapists)

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of working with people with eating disorders.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or providing supervision for others
• Experience of facilitating group therapy

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• The ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Ability to work independently and manage busy caseload.

Desirable

• Ability to facilitate positive multi-disciplinary relationships

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

St Ann's Hospital

St Ann's Road

London

N15 3TH

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