Senior Psychologist - Community Adult Eating Disorder Service
The closing date is 26 April 2026
This is an exciting opportunity for an established role in a growing team, at Band 8a as maternity cover.
The Community Adult Eating Disorders Service is a specialist team who offer assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe eating disorders. This will be in response to service needs and will involve working across the south of Essex and may involve working across the north of Essex.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to adults with eating disorders across both community out-patient and intensive community day treatment services. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to those referred to the team. Where appropriate, the post holder will also take a lead in ensuring that family therapy or family interventions are available to those seen within the service.
* Work across locality and interagency boundaries to meet the needs of a highly complex client group.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
* Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
* Offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist/psychotherapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
* Use appropriate evidence based psychological therapies for example Family Therapy, MANTRA or CBT‑E.
Benefits
* Season Ticket Loans
* NHS discounts for staff
* Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
* Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
* The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
* Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
* Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in applied psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC Registered
Knowledge
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology and research design.
* Evidence of continued professional development as recommended by the relevant professional or registering body
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/ Psychotherapists as appropriate to their training and qualifications
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, eating disorders etc).
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health speciality
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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