Eating Disorder Clinical Psychologist

37.5 Hours per Week

Calderdale and Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has an exciting opportunity to recruit to the Eating Disorder team.

The successful candidate will be a part of the pathway and will support the team in developing and driving this intervention within the Eating Disorders service. This will include supporting service development based on best practice guidelines and existing research and evidence.

You will deliver high quality interventions following care planning, treatment and regular reviews (CPA) from the qualified practitioners in your team for children and young people who meet the criteria of the pathway.

By identifying children and young people earlier and providing the right support, we can work with families to provide a dedicated treatment plan to be able to, prevent escalation and reduce long term difficulties and decrease the pressures in the ED and acute services.

We are looking for someone highly motivated and enthusiastic who has an interest and understanding of Eating Disorders. The service welcome professionals to join our existing multi disciplinary team. If you are unsure if you would be able to apply please contact to discuss further., The post also involves attendance at a variety of meetings with our external partners/agencies to ensure effective pathways of care.

Delivery of group interventions where appropriate.

To personally maintain accurate records.

Developing and maintaining supportive professional networks across the trust.

To liaise with and actively promote excellent working relationships and support the Senior Mental Health Practitioner with communication & working practices with referring teams and partner agencies. This would include the provision of expert advice to multi-agency partners

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Be passionate about improving the delivery of evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families.

Be a driven, enthusiastic and forward thinking.

Have knowledge of Eating Disorders and ARFID.

Have experience of working in a CAMHS setting.

Have excellent assessment, risk assessment, care planning and reviewing skills.

Be able to work and participate within an MDT.

Manage a caseload of young people with Eating Disorder and ARFID presentation/ diagnoses.

Attend at a variety of meetings to discuss complex cases as well as liaison with other services.

Be able to consult with others to give advice and guidance regarding a Systemic approach.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.