The Adult Eating Disorders service is a large well-established service with an experienced multidisciplinary team of clinicians. The post holder would be working in the outpatient team. The team works with a caseload of approximately 200 clients with severe eating disorders from the 5 boroughs that the Trust serves.

Evidence-based psychological therapy models are well regarded within the service. The team enjoys agile working so there is the opportunity to do some work from home but there is an expectation of face to face sessions when it is clinically indicated so the ability to travel to our main base at Springfield and other Trust locations is essential. There is opportunity for joint working, monthly in house CPD meetings, a robust induction and excellent supervision.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced clinical / counselling psychologist (registered with the HCPC) to work in our friendly service and focus on the implementation and expansion of the FREED pathway. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and passionate about working with a range of clients in the 18-25 age range (some of whom are difficult to engage). The post is substantive and full-time (37.5 hours per week).

The role involves managing all young adult referrals and some transition liaison with our colleagues in the Child & Adolescent ED service. The psychologist will join the 'FREED mini team' to track all referrals for 18 to 25-year olds and conduct an 'engagement call' within 48 hours of a referral being received. The postholder will endeavour to maintain the enthusiasm for FREED within the team and beyond (building links with relevant services and universities), through training and regular updates/liaison. You will provide supervision to qualified and non-qualified staff and work with the FREED champion to provide assessment and evidence-based treatment for FREED patients.

The role will require good organisation skills, creative thinking/problem solving, as well as leadership and passion. Ideally the post holder will have experience of working with people with eating disorders but we welcome applications from those who have worked in other specialities who can transfer their skills to an eating

About us

We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and working from home.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Subsidised car parking - You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Eye examinations
• Looking after your health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
• Free gym membership

Job description Job responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals both within the day unit and outpatient team and other eating disorder service teams/ CMHTs, contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

Person Specification Training and Qualifications Essential

• Successful completion of post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS prior to July 2009, or approved by the HCPC from July 2009
• Registered with the Health Care Professions Council.
• Where an applicant is in the final stages of training and has not yet obtained registration, an applicant will only be made an offer conditional upon successful registration within a time-scale that is specified.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience Essential

• 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 working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of working with clients with complex mental health presentations, delivering psychological assessment and treatment, including cognitive-behavioural therapy, on an individual and group basis

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical/counselling psychology/CBT therapy in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework

Knowledge & Skills Essential

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
• 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
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. eating disorder, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc
• Knowledge of physical risk pertaining to the eating disorders and of co-morbid physical difficulties (e.g., diabetes, obesity
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, including cognitive-behavioural therapy

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