Eating Disorder Clinical Psychologist

Job summary Hours per WeekCalderdale and Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental HealthService (CAMHS) has an exciting opportunity to recruit to the Eating Disorderteam.The successful candidate will be a part of the pathway and willsupport the team in developing and driving this intervention within the EatingDisorders service.
This will include supporting service development based onbest practice guidelines and existing research and evidence.You will deliver highquality interventions following care planning, treatment and regular reviews(CPA) from the qualified practitioners in your team for children and youngpeople who meet the criteria of the pathway.By identifying children and youngpeople earlier and providing the right support, we can work with families toprovide a dedicated treatment plan to be able to, prevent escalation and reducelong term difficulties and decrease the pressures in the ED and acute services.We are looking for someone highly motivated and enthusiastic whohas an interest and understanding of Eating Disorders.
The service welcome professionals to join ourexisting multi disciplinary team.
If you are unsure if you would be able toapply please contact to discuss further.At the time of advertising, this role does meet theminimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates towork in the UK.
We look forward to receiving your application.For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.
Main duties of the job The successful candidate will: Be passionate about improving the delivery ofevidence-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, careplanning and reviewing skills.Be able to work and participate within an MDT.Manage a caseload of young people with EatingDisorder and ARFID presentation/ diagnoses.
Attend at a variety of meetings to discusscomplex cases as well as liaison with other services.
Be able to consult with others to give adviceand guidance regarding a Systemic approach.The post also involves attendance at a varietyof meetings with our external partners/agencies to ensure effective pathways ofcare.
Delivery of group interventions whereappropriate.To personally maintain accurate records.Developing and maintaining supportiveprofessional networks across the trust.To liaise with and actively promote excellentworking relationships and support the Senior Mental Health Practitioner withcommunication & working practices with referring teams and partneragencies.
This would include the provision of expert advice to multi-agencypartnersAll employees of the Trust are stronglyencouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
About us Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield.
We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time.
We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run.
Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description Job responsibilities Thisjob description is an outline of the main duties of the post.
The post holder will be required to undertakeother duties commensurate with the grade as directed.
The content of this postwill be reviewed in consultation with the post holder when necessary and in linewith the service developments.Thepost holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology serviceto clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.Provide highly specialist psychologicalassessment and intervention.Provide advice and consultation onpsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professionalcarers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overallframework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.Supervise and support PsychologyAssistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.To utilise research skills for audit,policy, service development and research within the areas served by theteam/service.We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage.
If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
Person Specification Experience Essential Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration.
Show respect and treat people with dignity.
Be able to give bad news sensitively.
Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations.
Be aware of all interviewees in any situation.
Desirable Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience of groupwork TRAINING Essential Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS Essential Good Psychometric Assessment skills Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non verbal and written modes.
Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance Ability to Formulate Complex processes.
Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role Keyboard skills Manual Dexterity for conducting tests.
Desirable Working with people in Crisis Working on an in-patient Psychiatric ward.
Qualifications Essential Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES Essential Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES Essential A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability) To transport Psychometric testing equipment