Job summary
- Main area
- Eating Disorders
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a (or 7/8a preceptorship)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 383-SPE-4350-24
- Employer
- Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unity Mill
- Town
- Belper
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/06/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/06/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist Band 8a (or 7/8a preceptorship)
NHS AfC: Band 8a (or 7/8a preceptorship)
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
You would be joining us at an exciting time as we continue to expand our service and develop pathways to effectively support people with all eating disorders.
We welcome applications from psychologists able to provide high quality specialist clinical psychology services within our innovative multidisciplinary community eating disorders team.
Interviews will be held Monday 17th June
Main duties of the job
The post-holder would be responsible for providing specialist treatment and services for people with eating disorders who may present with another comorbidity, in collaboration with our multidisciplinary team.
You will use creative and innovative ideas to improve the service, developing and building the clinical model and delivery of treatment to enable us to effectively support people with the full range of eating disorders.
You will support the psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation, and training. The post holder will act as clinical supervisor to newly qualified and trainee clinical psychologists as well as assistant psychologists and other therapists including CBT therapists.
You will work autonomously within National, Professional, and Trust guidelines and policies, promoting high standards of psychology practice and use the highest quality of psychological evidence and clinical accountability to inform and enable best practice and to contribute and lead aspects of service development and delivery.
Working for our organisation
Derbyshire Healthcare is a community that cares for and supports each other so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations.
In Derbyshire Eating Disorders Service, we aspire to those same Trust values and consider ourselves to be a friendly team of professionals who are all passionate about providing high quality care to people with eating disorders.
Our team was established in 2007 and we now have over 30 members of
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS. The post holder must be either Chartered by the BPS or a Full member of the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a practitioner psychologist, under the heading of ‘Clinical Psychologist’.
- Good Honours degree in Psychology, with eligibility for graduate membership of BPS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with service users with eating disorders
- Experience of working with service users with severe mental health problems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mandy Underwood
- Job title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07796 185948
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Team
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
1st Floor Kingsway House (Entrance D)
Kingsway
Derby
DE22 3LZ
- Telephone
- 07900 135638
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