Job summary
An exciting opportunity to join the Lincolnshire-wide Adult Eating Disorder Service at a time of expansion of the workforce within the service and across psychology more generally.
We are a dynamic and proactive service that delivers a range of evidence-based interventions to support adults with Eating Disorders and work hard to improve awareness and reduce barriers to accessing services in our communities.
Working in a varied role within the community offering psychological interventions to service users, specialist supervision as well as supporting the development of eating disorder services and pathways.
You will work within a specialist multi-disciplinary team (MDT) including an Occupational Therapist, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologists and Specialist Dietitians to support the recovery of people with an eating disorder.
We are strongly committed to personal and professional development; the role is an excellent opportunity to develop specialist knowledge and transferable skills in a supportive team environment.
The main office base is in Lincoln but the service covers the whole of the county so some travel will be expected.
Main duties of the job
- Be part of specialist MDT within the Adult Eating Disorder Service.
- Supporting the provision of psychological therapy within the service. This will include specialist assessment and formulation, and provision of brief interventions, as well as evaluation of the services provided.
- Contribute to multi-disciplinary decision making around service user progression through the pathway based on assessment and formulation, risk assessment and safety planning.
- Provide psychological consultation and opinion to members of the MDT. This will aid development of psychological formulation and understanding across the teams, and support with care planning.
- Undertake and contribute to risk assessment and safety planning for individual service users.
- Support implementation of evidence based practice, and utilise research skills for audit and service evaluations.
- Contribute to engagement with carers/families/relatives recognising their role in service user care.
- Contribute to service development as part of community transformation.
About us
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 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. 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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Direct and Indirect
- To provide specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including , self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users and carers/families/relatives.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users presenting difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those difficulties, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers/families/relatives within and across the teams, developing and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
- To evaluate and make decisions about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
- To utilise outcome measures and complete evaluations of clinical effectiveness.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for own practice and in accordance with clinical governance.
- To provide specialist psychological support, consultation and guidance to other professionals contributing directly to the service users assessment, formulation and intervention plan and therefore support a psychological understanding of service user needs with reference to psychological research, theory and best practice.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To communicate and receive highly complex and contentious information in a skilled and sensitive manner, in the course of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- To provide advice, consultation, and training to other members of the MDTs for their provision of psychologically informed care.
- To contribute to, alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, delivery of teaching and training to colleagues and others as required.
- To contribute to the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
- To participate as appropriate both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for Assistant Psychologists.
- To contribute to professional leadership including provision of clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and other clinical staff, as required, with the possibility of providing managerial supervision to Assistant Psychologists.
Research and Evaluation
- To participate in the audit and evaluation processes through the deployment of professional research skills and ensure incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research, provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, and provide electronic data entry and analysis if required.
Planning and Service Development
- Participate in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional managers on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Professional, Managerial and Administrative
- To utilise resources and time efficiently and effectively, maintaining activity levels as agreed within lines of operational and professional accountability.
- Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service activities, supervision needs, and continuing professional development in the best interests of the service being provided.
- To exercise delegated responsibility for managing psychology materials and equipment.
- To participate in initiating and developing relevant activities related to clinical governance/ quality standards of practice.
- Work in accordance of the Trusts policies and procedures, and abide by the Code of Conduct for Practitioner Psychologists as outlined by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- To participate in the annual appraisal process/individual performance reviews.
- To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice as set out by the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.
- Collect and supply requested activity data, leave, travel and sickness, and maintain records for the Trust.
- Attend relevant service-level/professional meetings within the Trust as required and undertake duties arising from such meetings in keeping with the nature and grading of the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Direct and Indirect
- To provide specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including , self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users and carers/families/relatives.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users presenting difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those difficulties, and employing methods of proven efficacy.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers/families/relatives within and across the teams, developing and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
- To evaluate and make decisions about intervention options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
- To utilise outcome measures and complete evaluations of clinical effectiveness.
- To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for own practice and in accordance with clinical governance.
- To provide specialist psychological support, consultation and guidance to other professionals contributing directly to the service users assessment, formulation and intervention plan and therefore support a psychological understanding of service user needs with reference to psychological research, theory and best practice.
- To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To communicate and receive highly complex and contentious information in a skilled and sensitive manner, in the course of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- To provide advice, consultation, and training to other members of the MDTs for their provision of psychologically informed care.
- To contribute to, alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, delivery of teaching and training to colleagues and others as required.
- To contribute to the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
- To participate as appropriate both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for Assistant Psychologists.
- To contribute to professional leadership including provision of clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioural Therapists and other clinical staff, as required, with the possibility of providing managerial supervision to Assistant Psychologists.
Research and Evaluation
- To participate in the audit and evaluation processes through the deployment of professional research skills and ensure incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
- To undertake appropriate research, provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, and provide electronic data entry and analysis if required.
Planning and Service Development
- Participate in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional managers on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
Professional, Managerial and Administrative
- To utilise resources and time efficiently and effectively, maintaining activity levels as agreed within lines of operational and professional accountability.
- Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service activities, supervision needs, and continuing professional development in the best interests of the service being provided.
- To exercise delegated responsibility for managing psychology materials and equipment.
- To participate in initiating and developing relevant activities related to clinical governance/ quality standards of practice.
- Work in accordance of the Trusts policies and procedures, and abide by the Code of Conduct for Practitioner Psychologists as outlined by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- To participate in the annual appraisal process/individual performance reviews.
- To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing, and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice as set out by the HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.
- Collect and supply requested activity data, leave, travel and sickness, and maintain records for the Trust.
- Attend relevant service-level/professional meetings within the Trust as required and undertake duties arising from such meetings in keeping with the nature and grading of the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychotherapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) upon completion of doctoral training.
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS.
- BABCP accredited or eligibility to work towards this
Desirable
- Training in the provision of clinical supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adults who access a psychological service.
- Experience of working with individuals with complex mental health difficulties.
- Experience of working with carers/families/relatives.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the life course and presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity utilising complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Knowledge and experience of facilitating team formulations, and providing consultation and psychological opinion to MDT colleagues.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with an eating disorder.
- Experience of contributing to quality improvement or service evaluation projects.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment including assessment of risk, and subsequent care planning to address identified needs.
- Skills and ability to develop comprehensive formulations using a range of information and based on theoretical models.
- Knowledge in the appropriate use of outcome measures and evaluation of clinical effectiveness.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis.
- Ability to demonstrate empathy and compassion, and to foster effective working relationships.
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing with an ability to express complex, technical and highly sensitive information to service users, carers/families/relatives, and other professional colleagues adapting the communication style to suit the audience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to develop effective relationships.
- Experience of providing teaching/training.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Proficiency in keyboard skills, word processing, and Internet and email use.
Desirable
- Knowledge of specialised theory and psychological frameworks for working with people with an eating disorder
- Knowledge of national guidance and legislation in relation to working with people with eating disorders.
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to manage logistics of appointments in different parts of the county, and therefore have a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes
- Ability to engage in sustained and intense concentration, and sit/stand in restricted positions for extended periods of time.
- Ability to organise and manage own caseload, clinical activities, and communications and working relationships with other professionals and agencies.
- Ability to appropriately respond to and manage clinical situations in which verbal or physical aggression may present.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychotherapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) upon completion of doctoral training.
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS.
- BABCP accredited or eligibility to work towards this
Desirable
- Training in the provision of clinical supervision.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with adults who access a psychological service.
- Experience of working with individuals with complex mental health difficulties.
- Experience of working with carers/families/relatives.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the life course and presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity utilising complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Knowledge and experience of facilitating team formulations, and providing consultation and psychological opinion to MDT colleagues.
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with an eating disorder.
- Experience of contributing to quality improvement or service evaluation projects.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment including assessment of risk, and subsequent care planning to address identified needs.
- Skills and ability to develop comprehensive formulations using a range of information and based on theoretical models.
- Knowledge in the appropriate use of outcome measures and evaluation of clinical effectiveness.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis.
- Ability to demonstrate empathy and compassion, and to foster effective working relationships.
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing with an ability to express complex, technical and highly sensitive information to service users, carers/families/relatives, and other professional colleagues adapting the communication style to suit the audience.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to develop effective relationships.
- Experience of providing teaching/training.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Proficiency in keyboard skills, word processing, and Internet and email use.
Desirable
- Knowledge of specialised theory and psychological frameworks for working with people with an eating disorder
- Knowledge of national guidance and legislation in relation to working with people with eating disorders.
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to manage logistics of appointments in different parts of the county, and therefore have a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes
- Ability to engage in sustained and intense concentration, and sit/stand in restricted positions for extended periods of time.
- Ability to organise and manage own caseload, clinical activities, and communications and working relationships with other professionals and agencies.
- Ability to appropriately respond to and manage clinical situations in which verbal or physical aggression may present.
Desirable
- Personal experience of mental health problems.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
