Job summary
The Norfolk Community Eating Disorders Service (NCEDS) is an innovative team always looking to ensure that services offered are appropriate and beneficial to our service users. To this end we are currently developing an Embodied Trauma pathway to provide somatic therapies to support clients in building healthier relationships with their bodies and food.
We are therefore looking to recruit an experienced somatic therapist / Psychologist to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide body-focused therapeutic interventions aimed at helping individuals reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and process trauma stored in the body.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will either be a fully qualified somatic therapist or a clinical psychologist with specialist somatic training, for example sensorimotor psychotherapy.
The therapist might use techniques such as somatic experiencing, body awareness exercises, mindfulness practices, and movement therapy to help clients recognize and release physical tension and emotional blocks.
Their work would focus on fostering a sense of safety, bodily autonomy, and self-compassion, supporting clients in building healthier relationships with their bodies and food. Additionally, they would provide education about the mind-body connection and trauma, contribute to care planning, and offer tailored strategies to support long-term recovery.
This is a new role in a new pathway which is still in the process of being developed and as such we would welcome interest from accredited therapists, clinical or counselling psychologists who have the somatic skills and knowledge. There is flexibility in what makes the right candidate for this role so if you have the required somatic experience and an interest in eating disorders, please make contact for an informal discussion or visit.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide group and individual interventions aimed at helping individuals reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and process trauma stored in the body.
To provide specialist clinical formulations, assessments, evaluations and interventions as required and contribute a somatic psychological perspective to multi-disciplinary reviews and discussions.
To provide support and supervision to other members of the clinical team, and to trainee clinical psychologists.
To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.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, family, carers or group.
To provide 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.
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 in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To provide group and individual interventions aimed at helping individuals reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and process trauma stored in the body.
To provide specialist clinical formulations, assessments, evaluations and interventions as required and contribute a somatic psychological perspective to multi-disciplinary reviews and discussions.
To provide support and supervision to other members of the clinical team, and to trainee clinical psychologists.
To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors.
To develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.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, family, carers or group.
To provide 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.
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 in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Undertaken somatic therapy training and experience of somatic clinical practice
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in a therapeutic approach relevant to the treatment of eating disorders
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- Experience of working with people with an eating disorder
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Able to demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality
Desirable
- Experience of training others.
- Experience of running therapeutic groups and managing group dynamics
- Experience of service development
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of the development of eating disorders and an ability to demonstrate compassion for the lived experience of this illness
- Knowledge and understanding about complex trauma and the application of somatic treatment to this population
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge and experience of working with people on the autism spectrum and those with ADHD
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of working with clients with embodied trauma and eating disorders
- Knowledge of NICE Guidance in the treatment of eating disorders
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with service users
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record
Other
Essential
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
- Able to sit for long periods
- Ability to travel
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Undertaken somatic therapy training and experience of somatic clinical practice
- Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC.
- Undertaken training in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in a therapeutic approach relevant to the treatment of eating disorders
- Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- Experience of working with people with an eating disorder
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Able to demonstrate further specialist training / experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 2 years, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality
Desirable
- Experience of training others.
- Experience of running therapeutic groups and managing group dynamics
- Experience of service development
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of the development of eating disorders and an ability to demonstrate compassion for the lived experience of this illness
- Knowledge and understanding about complex trauma and the application of somatic treatment to this population
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration requiring the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information including contentious and highly distressing information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- Knowledge and experience of working with people on the autism spectrum and those with ADHD
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of working with clients with embodied trauma and eating disorders
- Knowledge of NICE Guidance in the treatment of eating disorders
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from service users
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling formation of networks with professionals within the Trust and from other agencies to promote effective team working with service users
- Motivated towards personal and professional development with strong CPD record
Other
Essential
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
- Able to sit for long periods
- Ability to travel
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Norfolk Community Eating Disorders, Norwich
21 Meridian Way, Meridian Business Park
Norwich
NR7 0TA
Employer's website
https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
