Job summary
We
are looking for two dynamic and enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologists or
Psychological Therapists to join the Adult Community Eating Disorder
Service based in Exeter
- 1 x Permanent(1 wte / 37.5 hrs per week) post
- 1 x 12 month Secondment / Fixed Term (0.7 wte / 26.25 hrs per week) post.
If you are an internal candidate then please indicate if you would like to apply for a secondment (fixed term post only)
The service is an
established multidisciplinary team providing assessments and treatment to clients with moderate to severe eating disorders and their families and carers. You would be joining a wide range of psychological professions including practitioner psychologists, CBT therapists, family therapist, trainee and assistant psychologists. This is an exciting opportunity for someone
with an interest in eating disorders to specialise and develop their skills and
experience in the field.
Being part of a specialist multi-disciplinary team, you will need to be a good communicator and enjoy working as part of an MDT. Although the team base is Exeter, you will need to be prepared to travel to other parts of Devon to see clients and be flexible to meet the demands of the job
There are opportunities for further specialist training both within the team and via external training providers e.g. MANTRA and CBT-ED and we welcome applications from newly qualified clinical/counselling psychologists or psychological therapists with relevant experience and training.
Main duties of the job
- Provision of assessments and evidence based psychological interventions to people with moderate-severe eating disorders referred to the service
- Opportunities to be involved in quality improvement projects, groups and service development
- Provide consultation to other teams and services within Devon Partnership Trust and the wider community.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of
the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with eating disorders who are referred to the team.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following
areas of responsibility:
1. Providing an evidenced based psychological
therapy service to people with moderate-severe eating disorders as a key
component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust
2. To provide local clinical
leadership, co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed
by or attached to the team, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional
Lead
3. Contributing to multidisciplinary
team discussions and formulations to ensure that the psychological needs of
people referred to the service are fully considered.
4. The
post holder will be supported by senior colleagues within their specialist
field. The post holder will be
expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their
clinical skills with this client group.
5. To work
autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/local
team.
6. The post holder will receive regular professional
and clinical supervision in accordance to
Trust policy and to Professional Practice
Guidelines set out by the British
Psychological Society or appropriate
designated Professional Body. Observe, and
abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practise including the British Psychological Society. The post
holder will be fully registered with the
Health Professions Council as a
condition of employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
Client, Family and Carers:
- To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive
manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or
communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally
disturbed.
Multidisciplinary team colleagues:
- To work closely with colleagues in the
multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day to
day basis.
Health & social care staff:
- To communicate with a wide range of health &
social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the
assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support &
guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective
practice.
Senior managers & professional staff:
- To maintain and build good working relationships
with senior professional staff and managers across the Psychology and Therapy
service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental
health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
The service:
- To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
The multidisciplinary service:
- To provide psychology/therapy knowledge to the
multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and
wellbeing services.
Responsibility for Judgment and Analysis
- To provide specialist psychological therapy
expertise and advice.
- To provide psychological therapies/other therapies,
developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients,
formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing
specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and
groups.
- To support the Professional Lead, General Manager,
Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Policy, Service, Research, Innovation and
Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own
professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and
Professional Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes
for policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other
Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and
Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants &/or
trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to health and
social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines.
Information Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to
generate, monitor, and respond to the
e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal
communication.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and
research to support evidence based practice in individual work or group work
- To support project work including specific areas of
audit, research or service evaluation.
- As a clinician to be responsible for collecting
clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice
based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom to Act
- The post holder is accountable for their own
professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and
Professional Practice Guidelines.
- To work autonomously within clinical professional
guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological
practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation of professional and
Trust guidelines, and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head
of Profession and General Manager.
- To provide specialist psychological therapy
expertise and advice guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of
patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and
families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided
by psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups
continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical
work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The principal purpose of
the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people with eating disorders who are referred to the team.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following
areas of responsibility:
1. Providing an evidenced based psychological
therapy service to people with moderate-severe eating disorders as a key
component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust
2. To provide local clinical
leadership, co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed
by or attached to the team, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional
Lead
3. Contributing to multidisciplinary
team discussions and formulations to ensure that the psychological needs of
people referred to the service are fully considered.
4. The
post holder will be supported by senior colleagues within their specialist
field. The post holder will be
expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their
clinical skills with this client group.
5. To work
autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/local
team.
6. The post holder will receive regular professional
and clinical supervision in accordance to
Trust policy and to Professional Practice
Guidelines set out by the British
Psychological Society or appropriate
designated Professional Body. Observe, and
abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practise including the British Psychological Society. The post
holder will be fully registered with the
Health Professions Council as a
condition of employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationships
Client, Family and Carers:
- To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive
manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or
communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally
disturbed.
Multidisciplinary team colleagues:
- To work closely with colleagues in the
multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day to
day basis.
Health & social care staff:
- To communicate with a wide range of health &
social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled
and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the
assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support &
guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective
practice.
Senior managers & professional staff:
- To maintain and build good working relationships
with senior professional staff and managers across the Psychology and Therapy
service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental
health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
The service:
- To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the
demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and
service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the
psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to
the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within
services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
The multidisciplinary service:
- To provide psychology/therapy knowledge to the
multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and
wellbeing services.
Responsibility for Judgment and Analysis
- To provide specialist psychological therapy
expertise and advice.
- To provide psychological therapies/other therapies,
developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients,
formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing
specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and
groups.
- To support the Professional Lead, General Manager,
Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by
undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the
resulting work within the team.
Policy, Service, Research, Innovation and
Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own
professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and
Professional Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes
for policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other
Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and
Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants &/or
trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to health and
social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with
professional guidelines.
Information Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust
Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to
generate, monitor, and respond to the
e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal
communication.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and
research to support evidence based practice in individual work or group work
- To support project work including specific areas of
audit, research or service evaluation.
- As a clinician to be responsible for collecting
clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice
based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom to Act
- The post holder is accountable for their own
professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and
Professional Practice Guidelines.
- To work autonomously within clinical professional
guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological
practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation of professional and
Trust guidelines, and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head
of Profession and General Manager.
- To provide specialist psychological therapy
expertise and advice guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of
patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and
families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided
by psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and
leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups
continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical
work.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
- Experience of working under supervision in secondary care adult mental health services or in the clinical specialism.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Other
Essential
- Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
- Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.
- Ability to tolerate ambiguity, and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with Severe and Complex mental health problems.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with eating disorders
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology and registered with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC) OR Psychological Therapist or Specialist Counsellor trained to masters level or equivalent in a specific psychological therapy and registration with an appropriate recognised professional body e.g. BABCP, UKCP.
Desirable
- Further training or experience in the clinical specialism of Eating Disorders.
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people
- Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long term perspective.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- Project management skills / experience
- Presentable / Clear telephone voice / Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
- Experience of working under supervision in secondary care adult mental health services or in the clinical specialism.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Other
Essential
- Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
- Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.
- Ability to tolerate ambiguity, and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with Severe and Complex mental health problems.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with eating disorders
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology and registered with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC) OR Psychological Therapist or Specialist Counsellor trained to masters level or equivalent in a specific psychological therapy and registration with an appropriate recognised professional body e.g. BABCP, UKCP.
Desirable
- Further training or experience in the clinical specialism of Eating Disorders.
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people
- Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long term perspective.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- Project management skills / experience
- Presentable / Clear telephone voice / Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise
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).
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