The senior therapist will play an integral role in providing quality, person-centered care to young people and families in the Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP).

They will play a role in completing specialist eating disorder assessments that follow standardised protocols. They will use evidence based and NICE concordant interventions for eating disorders to children and young people and their families. They will care coordinate a substantial caseload of assessment, treatment and consultation work, identifying priorities of action in complex circumstances.

The post holder will utilise specialist skills to be able to support and communicate with young people, families and other professionals - building and maintain strong relationships in often highly complex and emotionally distressing circumstances.

This is a senior clinical role, with leadership expectations, which include attending monthly Performance and Quality Meeting, leading on key clinical governance processes such as audit or QI, service development, supporting and supervising junior colleagues, participating in an open, collaborative and learning culture, and regular meetings with the senior leadership team.

Main duties of the job

To complete specialist eating disorder assessments within the Community Eating Disorder Service for Children & Young People (CEDS-CYP). Assessments will follow standardised protocols. Assessments will be discussed with the MDT within the CYP-CEDS.

To be involved in the multi-disciplinary assessment, diagnosis and treatment of young people with eating disorders in the community.

Liaising closely with professionals involved in the care of young people with eating disorders to ensure the provision of quality, person-centered care.

Provide NICE concordant specialist interventions (such as FT-AN and FT-BN), within a systemic approach, as part of individualized treatment plans for eating disorders. This includes individual therapy, family therapy and group interventions in accordance with service protocol and pathways.

Facilitate group interventions and deliver individual therapy as required.

To develop and deliver early intervention support, including consultations, psycho-education, self-help materials where applicable and links to appropriate service user groups.

To act as duty senior on the rota of duty clinicians managing referrals and providing a rapid response to urgent clinical situations.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

For full details and description of this post, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Education

• Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• Registered with Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral psychology trainees.
• Further training in brief interventions (ACT, CBT, Solution focused therapy).
• Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through continous professional development.

Experience

• Experience of working as a specialist clinical psychologist in a health setting.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of teaching, training and supervision
• Experience of working with complex and vulnerable patient groups e.g. drug and alcohol services, homeless, personality disorder.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care/ health services
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult - to - treat groups (e.g. chronic pain, complex needs, self-harm, personality disorder psychosis, dual diagnosis, persons with additional disabilities, long term health conditions).
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies - preferably CBT and one other. Knowledge of the academic literature of the specialism.
• Highly-developed skills in the effective communication of highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to a wide variety of recipients in a range of settings within and outside the NHS, including the ability to produce comprehensive and coherent letters, reports and associated documentation.
• Ability to support and co-ordinate the work of psychology colleagues within the team/service.
• Highly-developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and to develop formulations upon which to base choice of treatment.
• Highly-developed communication skills at overcoming barriers to understanding and acceptance.
• Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems.

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.

Full-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working