Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Systemic or Psychological Therapist

1 month ago

Colchester Essex, United Kingdom Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity for an established role in a growing team, to work across the north of the county. It is a 12 month, fixed-term contract covering maternity leave and provides an excellent opportunity for someone to develop their interest in working with eating disorders.

The Community Adult Eating Disorder Service is a specialist team who offer assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe eating disorders.

The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to adults with eating disorders across both community out-patient and intensive community day treatment services.

The post holder will be required to:

  • Work across locality and interagency boundaries to meet the needs of a highly complex client group.
  • Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures.
  • Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
  • Offer advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to non-psychologist/psychotherapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
  • Use appropriate evidence based psychological therapies such as Family Therapy, MANTRA and CBT-E for example.

This role can also be offered at Band 7 depending on your experience.

Main duties of the job


  • To provide specialist psychological assessments to clients of the Eating Disorder Service upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
  • To have a good awareness of the impact of the effect of eating disorders upon the physiological functioning of patients and, together with the multi-disciplinary, team ensure that these risks are identified and appropriately managed.
  • To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems. This involves employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, including hospitals, local statutory and voluntary bodies, residential units and community services.
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This includes adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

About us

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank

Job description

Job responsibilities

For a full detailed look at the role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Recruiting Manager, Dr Rob McCarney for further information regarding this position.

Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Essential


  • Appropriate qualification, as listed in person specification

Desirable


  • Additional specialist training relevant to the post

Experience

Essential


  • Experience of working with patients with mental health problems
  • Proven experience of working in a health, social care or community setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable


  • Experience of working with people with eating disorders
  • Knowledge of risks that are particularly pertinent to eating disorders

Employer details

Employer name

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northgate Centre

North Station Road

Colchester

CO1 1RB

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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