Job summary
Community Eating Disorders Service offers specialist outpatient care to those with moderate to severe eating disorder across Hertfordshire. We offer multidisciplinary treatment to adults with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder. As well as psychological therapy, we also offer dietetic support, psychiatric input, nursing care and support work, occupational therapy and support with social care needs. We offer outpatient treatment in the community and we also have a day unit and access to the East of England Admission Avoidance Team and local Specialist Inpatient Units.
Our friendly team is mainly located at Rosanne House in Welwyn Garden City but we also provide satellite clinics across the county of Hertfordshire so that we are closer to where our patients lives.
Our team of 15+ psychological therapists, psychologists and arts therapists work in a integrative way drawing on NICE recommended treatments as well as individual formulation-based work. The successful candidate will receive regular supervision from a senior member of the team and will have access to a broad range of training related to eating disorders.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for groups and individuals with moderate to severe eating disorders, as well as offering specialist advice and consultation to clients, their families, carers, and mental health professionals in relevant care settings. The post holder will supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. The post-holder will work closely with psychological therapy colleagues and colleagues within the wider MDT. The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures, and utilize research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the CEDS.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
The above service delivery includes provision of:
To provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation of clients with moderate to severe eating disorders.
To provide a range of brief, medium and long-term specialist psychological interventions/psychotherapy using at least one of the evidence-based therapy models for the treatment of eating disorders (i.e. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, Family and Systemic Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy).
To supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/ psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to other mental health professionals and carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
To utilize research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by CEDS.
To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within the service.
To contribute to training to staff groups, across all sectors of care.
Contributing psychological expertise to assist service development and policy change within the area served by the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The above service delivery includes provision of:
To provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation of clients with moderate to severe eating disorders.
To provide a range of brief, medium and long-term specialist psychological interventions/psychotherapy using at least one of the evidence-based therapy models for the treatment of eating disorders (i.e. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, Family and Systemic Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy).
To supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/ psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to other mental health professionals and carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
To utilize research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by CEDS.
To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within the service.
To contribute to training to staff groups, across all sectors of care.
Contributing psychological expertise to assist service development and policy change within the area served by the post.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Post-graduate training in Psychotherapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration OR Doctoral Level Training in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology and current HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Evidence of further training in Eating Disorder Treatment, e.g post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, FPT
- Further post-graduate training in psychological therapy models for specific populations, e.g. trauma
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a variety of care settings
- Ability and experience of representing psychological therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability and skills to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability and skills to identify, promote and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Abilities to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi -media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Abilities to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks including Safeguarding
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments in eating disorders
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Experience of service quality monitoring and service development e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, service development projects, etc.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- To critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
- Post-graduate training in Psychotherapy and current BACP/UKCP/BAPCP registration OR Doctoral Level Training in Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychology and current HCPC registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Evidence of further training in Eating Disorder Treatment, e.g post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, FPT
- Further post-graduate training in psychological therapy models for specific populations, e.g. trauma
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a variety of care settings
- Ability and experience of representing psychological therapies within the context of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration
- Ability and skills to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability and skills to identify, promote and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Abilities to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi -media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Abilities to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks including Safeguarding
- Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments in eating disorders
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Experience of service quality monitoring and service development e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, service development projects, etc.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential
- To critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work
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).
