Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced psychological therapist or accredidated family therapist to join our dedicated Lifespan Community Eating Disorder service based in North East London NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will take a leadership role in the development of the CYP part of all age community eating disorder service, offer expert supervision and support the team to deliver high quality NICE concordant psychological therapy. This is a great opportunity to join our highly skilled, dedicated and friendly team and contribute to exciting service development.
The post holder will be expected to offer clinical support and guidance and expert clinical supervision on NICE concordant psychological approaches to psychological practitioners working with children and young people with an eating disorder.
The successful candidate will have a robust knowledge of risk assessment for safe management of physical and psychological risk in eating disorders. You will have clinical oversight of complex cases where regular liaison with partnership agencies such as bed management team and specialist eating disorder inpatient units is required. The post holder will work well within a MDT setting however should be able to deliver an autonomous service as part of the role, operating within recognised professional guidelines and the overall framework of the eating disorder service’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
1. We are seeking an individual who has experience in working with children and young people with eating disorders and their care givers and is passionate about delivering high quality, patient-led care.
2. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the senior leadership team driving standards and supporting the camhs therapy team to deliver NICE concordant psychological treatments.
3. You will have advanced risk management skills and expert in delivering NICE recommended eating disorder therapies.
4. You will have a track record in delivering high quality expert clinical supervision including advanced skills in case formulation.
5. You role will dove tail with senior leads on the camhs part of NELFT all age eating disorder service driving clinical standards of care.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
6. We are kind.
7. We are respectful.
8. We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
Starting with Us
NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 pro rata for part time).
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT PLANNING
·Provide highly specialist psychological assessments service-users referred to the eating disorder team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of highly complex, sensitive and data.
·Undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
·To provide specialist diagnostic psychometric and cognitive testing where appropriate
·To formulate evidence-based treatment plans, based on sound and current theoretical knowledge and good practice.
·Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about a range of 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 involve service users and their carers in planning and delivery of care.
Person specification
Significant knowledge and skills in ED
Essential criteria
9. CEDS experince
Desirable criteria
10. Min two years exp
evidence based treatments in EDs
Essential criteria
11. advanced knowledge and skills in delivering EBT
Desirable criteria
12. Min two years post reg
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
13. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
14. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
15. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
16. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.