Psychological Therapist

The community-based eating disorder service provides assessment and intervention within a stepped care approach for children and young people with an eating disorder - anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and atypical eating disorders. The team works closely with other CAMHS staff to enable children and young people with an eating disorder to access the full range of supportive interventions available. Operating out of all CAMHS hubs, the team also offer a home treatment and family support element.

You will provide specialist psychology informed assessments and interventions for children and young people referred to the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service. You will be expected to work closely with our Core CAMHS and Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Team (CCETT) and support staff in carrying out comprehensive assessments for these children and young people (CYP); produce clear formulations to understand the presenting concerns; agree comprehensive treatment and care plans.

You will have a key role in providing consultation to professionals and guide on formulations to help gain an understanding of the child’s presentation agree appropriate interventions. You will be expected to be able to work flexibly across the county.

You will have specialist training and experience and will provide supervision and consultation to staff within the team, and wider CYP service and partner agencies.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Clinical

Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT CAMHS-EDS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention. Work as the sole clinician, or in conjunction with other colleagues. To act as Case Coordinator/ Lead Professional where appropriate.

To be a facilitator providing therapy and psychoeducation interventions to groups of children, young people, carers.

Experience in and ability to provide at least 2 of the following therapeutic interventions:
Family Based Therapy (FBT).

Cognitive-behaviour therapy

Interpersonal Psychotherapy FOR Adolescent (IPT-A).

Systemic work with families and other involved agencies.

Solution focused therapies.

Creative therapies.

Relaxation and visualisation techniques.

Post Trauma therapy.

Teaching, training and supervision

To receive regular clinical and line management supervision.

To assist in providing specialist placements to students/ trainees as appropriate.

To provide psychologically informed advice, consultation, training and supervision to other CAMHS staff, and partner agencies.

To assist with the planning, organising and provision of local and county wide in-service training and case discussion forums.

Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care

To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT CAMHS-EDS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention.

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation.

To provide and assist with the further development of EDS through input to core CAMHS, attending CAMHS team meetings and meetings for Child Psychological Therapies staff. To propose service developments and changes as appropriate.

Responsible for implementing policies as set out by LPFT CYP services.

Responsibilities for financial and physical resources.

Responsible for alerting administrative staff if any materials, questionnaires are running low; are no longer fit for purpose.

**Responsibilities for human resources**:
Ability to supervise more junior staff; volunteers; other professionals.

To provide effective supervision to more junior practitioners, volunteers and other professionals as appropriate.

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