Principal Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Stafford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the CYP Eating Disorders Day Hospital and Intensive Support at Home Service in Stafford. The post is an 8b role with potential 8a-8b development, and may involve hybrid working and some travel.

You will lead the development and implementation of psychological provision, delivering highly specialist assessments and interventions for young people with moderate to severe eating disorders,

Qualifications

• Experience leading psychological services within eating disorders settings.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.
• Ability to provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of psychological provision within the day hospital and ED-ISH team.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions for young people with eating disorders.
• Support service development, training, and professional consultation within the team and partner agencies.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join our new CYP Eating Disorders Day Hospital and Intensive Support at Home Service. If you have experience of working in eating disorders settings and are creative and motivated with strong leadership skills we would love to hear from you. Whilst this post is an 8b role, an 8a-8b development could be considered.

The service is currently mobilising to deliver intensive, evidence-based care to young people experiencing moderate/severe eating disorders. This innovative specialist provision aims to bridge the gap between inpatient and community care, offering a safe and structured alternative to admission and facilitating earlier discharge from hospital settings. The MDT collaboratively provides holistic, person-centred care including in-reach and outreach support, intensive day hospital interventions, meal support and psychoeducation, as well as training and consultation.

The day hospital is in Stafford; the EDISH team covers Staffordshire and Shropshire, both working collaboratively with the community ED teams. This role will be based in Stafford but there may be scope for hybrid working as well as some travel.

Main duties of the job

As the Principal Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, you will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of psychological provision within the day hospital and ED-ISH team, ensuring all members of the clinical team have access to psychologically based frameworks for understanding and informing the care of young people, through the provision of advice, consultation and supervision and the dissemination of psychological research and theory. In your own clinical work, you will provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions, working with young people with eating disorders requiring intensive support.

In your role as a senior clinician and Psychological Professional you will contribute to maintaining a psychologically-safe team culture, support with ensuring team effectiveness and participate in/lead service developments. There will also be scope for delivering training and consultation internally and to partner agencies and representing the team at a senior level within the wider Care Group and Trust organisational meetings.

We have a clear Psychological Professions structure within the Children & Families Care Group and MPFT Psychological Services Directorate, supported professionally by the Care Group Lead for Psychological Services. This enables connections across services and opportunities for CPD, research, teaching on local doctoral courses and the provision of trainee Psychologist placements.