The post is based in the Eating Disorders Service at The Barberry in Edgbaston. A major aspect of the role involves developing and delivering digital packages of interventions with a view of improving patients’ access to timely and high-quality psychological help and psychoeducation. This post will also provide opportunities for researching and trialling other creative ways of supporting eating disorder recovery such as use of social media or liaising with other agencies. It will therefore suit somebody with proficient IT skills and keen interest in creative use of modern technologies for health promotion. Alongside development of new materials and contributing to more innovative service delivery, this post will also involve direct clinical work. This may range from delivering aforementioned digitalised courses alongside using more traditional manual-based interventions as appropriate, according to levels of skills and experience. The post holder is likely to also co-facilitate group programmes alongside multidisciplinary colleagues.
Being allied to the multi-disciplinary team in the Eating Disorders Service, the post holder will act as a member of the team, attend meetings and contribute to informing patients psychological care within the team. The post holder will be closely supervised and supported by an experienced psychological professional in the Eating Disorders Service.
Under the supervision of a qualified and suitably experienced psychologist:
* To support development, delivery and evaluation of e-learning packages for patients at various stages of their recovery. This will necessitate the substantive use of IT equipment, software and web-based packages.
* To support development and implementation of digitalised outcome measure collection
* To be involved in researching and trialling other creative ways for health promotion and maintenance such as use of social media and linking with third sector agencies
* To support colleagues and patients in adopting new technologies and ways of working
* To also provide more traditional manual-based cognitive behavioural interventions with clients such as guided self-help and CBT-T as well as other short-term discrete pieces of psychological work as appropriate, according to levels of skills and experience.
* To take part in the facilitation of the group programme, including planning and running of therapeutic groups online and face to face
* To attend clinical reviews and other multi-disciplinary meetings
* To attend regular individual clinical supervision
* To undertake specific duties as appointed pertaining to service governance objectives including timely record keeping, data collection and analysis, report writing and presentation.
* To undertake/contribute to teaching, training, health promotion research and related activities of the service.
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Dr Newman Leung
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address: newman.leung@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01213012410
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