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Senior Psychologist in Eating Disorders

Employer
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location
West Bromwich
Salary
£48,526 to £54,619 a year pro rata
Closing date
1 Apr 2023

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Profession
Psychologist, Eating disorders nurse
Grade
Band 8A
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time
Band 8a senior psychologist

All Aged Eating Disorder Service

Band 8a
0.6 wte
Permanent
Across the Black Country - Wolverhampton and Sandwell
Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our team and contribute to shaping this aspirational service. The post holder will provide highly specialist psychological work and contribute to the assessment, formulation and delivery of evidence based psychological treatments for people with eating disorders and their families, a s part of an MDT approach. A core part of this role is to promote a trauma-informed, psychological perspective and support the wider team through supervision, training, and consultation. They will show an aptitude for leadership skills and ensure that a psychological perspective is brought to service redesign and cultural change. The post holder will also take a key role in supporting the team leader/principal psychologist with research and clinical governance activities. Whilst prior experience of working with eating disorders is of course beneficial, we would be keen to hear from anybody with transferable skills and enthusiasm for the field.

About us
We are in the process of delivering our all age model across the whole of the Black Country and are looking for a clinical or counselling psychologist with a special interest in eating disorders to join our team and contribute to the delivery and development of this growing service. The service is part of the FREED network to deliver care for early intervention in the treatment of eating disorders and we are ensuring all of the service will deliver on prompt access and waiting times across the service regardless of age. The service is multidisciplinary and psychologically informed, building its existing pathways around severe enduring eating disorders, ARFID, outreach and physical health care. Our most recent CQC inspection of the service rated us Good in all areas and Outstanding in responsiveness and our vision is to work as a team to continuously improve. We positively welcome applications from people who represent diverse communities.

Job description
Job responsibilities

The All Age eating Disorder Service is the perfect place to be part of a team that is passionate about patient care and working together. Our Psychologists utilise their skills for the benefit of the team development and ensuring excellent standards.

Person Specification
essential
Essential
  • Registered with HPC
  • Qualified counselling or clinical psychologist
  • Significant post qualifying experience
  • Passion and interest in ED
  • Works in line with trust and team values

Desirable
  • cpd in eating disorders
  • experience in eating disorders


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