Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (CAMHS Eating Disorders)

Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (CAMHS Eating Disorders)

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing service which has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention. You will provide specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and expert clinical interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, and their families. There will also be opportunities for the post holder to contribute to ongoing service development potentially focusing on emotion dysregulation and/or less common feeding and eating disorder presentation pathways and/or working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns.

Main duties of the job

1. To offer assessment and evidence based psychological therapies for young people with an eating disorder and their families.
2. To facilitate psycho-educational parents groups and other groups.
3. To work with co-morbidities, using formulation driven care-planning.
4. To implement behavioural management plans.
5. To offer consultation to colleagues in other services.
6. Support management of ROMs and audit.
7. To hold a case load and act as case manager.
8. Supervision of other qualified clinical psychologists and trainees, assistant psychologists, psychology placement students and volunteers.
9. Attend all multi disciplinary meetings and care planning reviews and contributes to thinking about young people and their families from a psychological perspective.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'. This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do. We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide highly specialist clinical psychology services to children, young people and their families/carers; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child or young person's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care. To work within Trust and professional guidelines.
4. To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees PADRs.
5. Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
6. To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
7. To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
8. To work with the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service Professional Lead for Psychology and Psychotherapies to lead the work of a particular aspect of service provision.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Clinical Psychologist registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist under the domain of Clinical Psychologist OR Qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) via the College of Family Couple and Systemic Therapy, and post-graduate qualification in relevant mental health/social welfare profession with demonstrable practice over a minimum of four years.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Post qualification training in the clinical supervision of trainees.
• Training as part of a CYP IAPT collaborative in a recognised evidenced based approach.
• Formal training in the supervision of a psychotherapeutic modality.
• Further training in a recognised evidence-based psychological therapy.

Experience

• Consolidated experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient settings.
• Consolidated experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Demonstrate further specialist training and experience by having received a minimum of 50 hours of clinical supervision of working as a specialist psychologist or psychotherapist over a minimum of 18 months.
• Experience of working with eating disorders.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of service development or of a leadership role.
• Experience of working in CAMHS.

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.

Salary: £61,927 to £68,676 a year, inclusive of Inner London HCAs.