Band 8c Consultant Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorders

Job summary

We are looking for a highly skilled consultant psychologist to lead our relatively new and innovative online service for patients with anorexia nervosa.

Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Programme, is an online treatment for patients living in the East Midlands region, offering the option of staying at home, whilst receiving intensive support akin to inpatient care.

Here's more about what we do and who we are:

What do we do? Deliver an online group treatment programme, with the aim of attendees restoring weight and working towards recovery from their eating disorder, Monday to Friday, 8.30am till 4.30pm.

We facilitate educational and therapeutic groups and provide meal supervisions. There is one evening meal each week, which we are hoping to increase the regularity of as our staffing increases.

Although the majority of the treatment is delivered online, there is also some face-to-face work on an individual basis and community support for activities such as home cooking, visits to cafes or for shopping.

Who's the team? We are a team of enthusiastic and skilled clinicians Occupational Therapists, Registered Mental Nurses, Assistant Psychologists, Therapy Support Workers and peer support workers.

We are passionate about providing a much-needed alternative option of treatment, other than inpatient admission or long-term outpatient therapy.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Team clinically and operationally.
• Provide effective professional supervision to the multi-disciplinary team.
• Contribute expert knowledge to complex clinical presentations and plans of care.
• Provide effective liaison between partnering Trusts.
• Provide reports, audit outcomes and data to Trust, commissioning and monitoring authorities.
• Continue to develop and improve service and its outcomes.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bennion Centre

Glenfield Hospital

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9EJ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bennion Centre

Glenfield Hospital

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9EJ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

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