Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist 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 Psychological 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 Psychological Therapies Lead 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
To provide a psychology service to clients of the Eating Disorders Service, across all sectors of care; responsible for specialist psychological assessment and therapy; offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers; working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Working for our organisation
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, 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 a Principal Psychologist who, in turn, reports managerially to the Service Lead of the EDS.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
* 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
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, including CBT.
* HCPC registration
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* 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 criteria
* 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 criteria
* Ability to work independently and manage busy caseload.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to facilitate positive multi-disciplinary relationships
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