Cbt Therapist

The Norfolk community eating disorder service is a specialised team caring for adults with an eating disorder. We are currently expanding our pathways and have received significant investment into our service making it an exciting time to join NCEDS.

We are looking for a psychological therapist to help lead the provision of NICE recommended treatments specifically CBT / MANTRA / SSCM / CAT alongside other therapies relevant to the treatment of eating disorders.

To work as part of the Norfolk Community Eating Disorder Service offering specialist assessment, formulation and psychological therapy to patients with eating disorders across the county of Norfolk.

The post holder will be expected to work as an independent psychological therapist carrying a caseload of clients. The post-holder will be involved in the clinical management of patients and ensure close liaison with eating disorder inpatient units, acute hospitals and 3rd sector partners.

The post-holder will be to provide advice, training, support and supervision to staff in other agencies in the care and management of individuals with eating disorders

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To deliver NICE recommended psychological therapies informed by individual need and which utilise the appropriate range of cognitive behavioural theoretical and therapeutic models.

To continually monitor and evaluate the psychological interventions provided, employing service specific outcome measures as required, reformulating and adjusting hypotheses and interventions as new information becomes available and liaising effectively with other professionals involved.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within NCEDS.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, carers or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.

To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to patients / clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients / clients under their care

To provide specialist professional contributions to relevant multi-agency clinical meetings.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management when working directly with clients and to provide advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, relating to the client and to others.

To produce reports on patients/ clients, in a timely manner, that conveys the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers. To ensure that these reports are put in all appropriate medical notes both in the base and network

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients within the service and, where appropriate, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

Working closely with acute colleagues adhering to MEED guidance and working closely with our third sector partners, Eating Matters.