Senior Psychologist in CYP Eating Disorders

The post is varied and offers the opportunity for family work, 1:1 work, group work, multi-agency liaison and consultation, as well as supervision, management and service development tasks. CPD is strongly supported and training could be provided in new treatment models, such as Family-Based Therapy for Anorexia/Bulimia (or other relevant models of interest).
The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, build excellent relationships with MDT colleagues and service-users, and have experience of working with young people in services that manage complexity or risk. Eating disorder experience is valued, but someone who has a relevant experience and a passion for learning would be welcomed and supported to develop new specialist eating disorder skills.
Interested candidates are welcome to visit or contact us for further information., Your time will be split between two bases, one in vibrant South Kensington and and one in Harrow.
The team has a strong learning culture and we are proud that our Consultant Psychiatrist has recently been appointed as the national lead for CYP eating disorders.
Staff wellbeing and CPD are priorities. Vincent Square is an all age service and offers excellent opportunities to benefit from cross-service learning sessions. The post-holder will also have access to CNWL Leadership programmes, and the excellent Trust Psychological Professions Workforce Development Programme, which offers diverse and high-quality CPD opportunities.
To provide a specialist therapy to clients in the CYP Eating Disorder service, across all sectors of care.
This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and to other non-professional carers.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Working for our organisation
The post-holder will be working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams' policies and procedures.
Skills required for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and the service.
The post holder will be based at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service and will provide clinical and other services across the community children and young people service.
You will be expected to work flexibly across both sites (Chelsea and Harrow). Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area.
Hear from our staff what it's like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please click on below videos, 1. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team, based 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).
2. To diagnose patients' eating and related psychiatric problems.
3. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems. To employ methods based upon evidence of efficacy in the outpatient setting.
4. To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This occurs within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
6. To integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions.
7. To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient's care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patient's physical safety.
8. To understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology).
9. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
10. To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
12. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
13. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
14. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.
15. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical and operational supervision from the team's Lead clinical psychologist and where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
2. To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision.
3. To provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.
4. To provide clinical placements for appropriate trainees, ensuring that they acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
5. To provide professional and clinical supervision of trainees and assistants.
6. To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of other professionals, as required by the head of specialty.
7. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
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