Senior Psychological Therapist/CBT Therapist/Psychologist

Integrated Care System; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Psychological Therapist/CBT Therapist/Psychologist for the Adult Community Eating Disorders Service. This role involves providing specialized psychological assessment and intervention, supervising trainee psychologists, and contributing to service governance. The ideal candidate will hold a Doctorate in Psychology and have experience in eating disorder treatment.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology and HCPC registration required.
• Experience in supervising clinical staff and psychological assessment.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and treatment for clients with eating disorders.
• Supervise and support trainee psychologists and other clinical staff.
• Work within professional guidelines and contribute to service development.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Psychological Assessment

Team Leadership

Consultation

Education

Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology

Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Tools

Microsoft Office

Electronic Patient Records

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Psychological Therapist/CBT Therapist/Psychologist

The closing date is 21 July 2025

The Adult Community Eating Disorders Service offers specialist outpatient care to those with moderate to severe eating disorder across Hertfordshire.

The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for groups and individuals with moderate to severe eating disorders, as well as offering specialist advice and consultation to clients, their families, carers, and mental health professionals in relevant care settings.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• The post-holder will work closely with psychological therapy colleagues and colleagues within the wider MDT.
• The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures, and utilize research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the CEDS.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job responsibilities

The above service delivery includes provision of:

To provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation of clients with moderate to severe eating disorders.

To provide a range of brief, medium and long-term specialist psychological interventions/psychotherapy using at least two of the evidence-based therapy models for the treatment of eating disorders (i.e. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, Family and Systemic Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy).

To supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/ psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to other mental health professionals and carers.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

To utilize research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by CEDS.

To be a member of the teams Leadership and Management.

To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within the service.

To contribute to training to staff groups, across all sectors of care.

Contributing psychological expertise to assist service development and policy change within the area served by the post.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology and registration with HCPC as Practitioner Psychologist
• Post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration.
• Evidence of further training in Eating Disorder Treatment, e.g post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, FPT
• Further post-graduate training in therapy models for specific populations, e.g. trauma, diabetes, etc.

Experience

• Experience of supervising qualified and non-qualified clinical staff
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a variety of care settings
• Ability and experience of representing psychological therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
• Ability and skills to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability and skills to identify, promote and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Abilities to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Abilities to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks including Safeguarding
• Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments in eating disorders
• Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
• Experience of service quality monitoring and service development e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, service development projects, etc.

Diversity

• Ability to apply clinical psychology/psychotherapy in different cultural contexts sensitively and to take action when own or others' behaviour undermine equality and diversity

General

• Ability to assess and identify own developmental needs and takes responsibility for personal development
• IT Skills; including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records
• Ability to travel and work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire
• Lived experience of mental health Problems and or eating disorders

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.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)