Clinical Counselling Psychologist In Camhs Eating Disorders

Royal Free London Nhs Foundation Trust; Hampstead; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior clinical/counselling psychologist to provide expert psychology input across our CAMHS eating disorders services, including ARFID pathways and MDT intensive treatment. The role includes supervision, service development and working across Hampstead in North London.

The post involves supervising junior staff, contributing to CPD, and supporting complex cases within a lively, multidisciplinary team dedicated to excellent outcomes for young

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience as clinical or counselling psychologist (minimum 2 years).
• Experience with eating disorders in children/young people within MDT settings.
• Experience of supervision/teaching to junior staff.
• Experience of applying psychology in diverse cultural contexts and in an intensive community service.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across care settings.
• Experience of research methods and data analysis for service development.

Responsibilities

• Providing evidence-based treatments for child/adolescent eating disorders including ARFID as part of the MDT.
• Providing psychological input for patients in the intensive service via MDT forums and direct work as needed.
• Overseeing and developing the collection/analysis of outcome data for the intensive service.
• Delivering therapy addressing maintaining factors (anxiety, mood, perfectionism, self-esteem, emotion regulation).
• Providing consultation and supervision to junior psychologists and other team members.

Skills

Complex psychological assessment

Theoretical models & interventions

Clear communication

Professional consultation

Research methodology

Legislation knowledge

CPD & supervision

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Service development

Education

Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology

HCPC registration

Chartered Psychologist status eligibility

Job description

Job summary

Are you a clinical or counselling psychologist with significant experience in CAMHS eating disorder work, with a particular interest in working with young people with complex eating disorder presentations including ARFID? This is an opportunity to provide senior psychology input across our community service, including our severe ARFID pathway and our MDT intensive treatment service.

Young people using our MDT intensive service often have complex presentations, including for example neurodiversity or trauma, and are at risk of inpatient admissions.

The service is the multidisciplinary North Central London (Royal Free) community CAMHS Eating Disorders team, and we provide community treatment for young people with eating disorders including ARFID. We have a lively and supportive psychology team, and as a senior member you would provide supervision and line management to junior colleagues.

We are a large and friendly MDT based in Hampstead in North London. There is plenty of opportunity for CPD and training, and to be involved in research. Visits and enquiries are welcome.

Main duties of the job

• Providing evidence-based treatments (FTAN, FTBN, CBTE, CBT-AR, AFT) for child and adolescent eating disorders including ARFID as part of the multidisciplinary team, and in conjunction with partner agencies.
• Providing psychological input for patients in our intensive service; through MDT forums, staff support, and some direct work with patients when needed
• In conjunction with the assistant psychologist, to oversee and develop the collection and analysis of outcome data for the intensive service
• Providing psychological therapy focussed on common psychological maintaining factors for eating disorders, such as anxiety, mood problems, perfectionism, poor self-esteem, and emotion regulation difficulties.
• Providing consultation and supervision to junior psychologists and other members of the team as appropriate

About us

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

Job responsibilities

For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the British Psychological Society, or British Psychological Society Statement of Equivalence.
• HCPC registration
• Eligibility for Chartered Psychologist status

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 2 years post qualification experience as a clinical or counselling psychologist
• Evidence of post-qualification supervised clinical experience in therapeutic intervention and management of children and young people with eating disorders, using family based and cognitive-behavioural assessment and intervention techniques.
• Experience of work within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary environments
• Experience of working with children and young people with common mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression
• Experience of working with children and young people with developmental conditions such as autism and ADHD
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with an intensive community service
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of service development
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

Desirable

• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.

skills and apptitudes

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with complex cases
• Knowledge of at least two relevant theoretical models and psychological interventions relevant to patients with eating disorders
• 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.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and quantitative data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the British Psychological Society/HCPC
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Interest and ability to contribute to service development.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).

Desirable

• Familiarity with SPSS databases and statistical package
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Personal qualities and attributes

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Desirable

• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.

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.

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