Job summary
- Main area
- Eating Disorders
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC 12 Months)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 333-G-ED-0419-A
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Health at the Stowe
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist / CBT Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL eating disorders service as Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and/or Specialist CBT Therapist.
Main duties of the job
This position involves providing specialist therapies to clients across all sectors of care, although the majority of the work will be with outpatients.
This position involves providing specialist therapies (CBT-E, MANTRA, CBT-AR) to clients across all sectors of care. This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, whilst also offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and to other non-professional carers. The post holder will carry out clinical duties, clinically-relevant audit and research (as appropriate), and relevant administrative duties.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will be based at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service and will provide clinical and other services across the inpatient, day patient and outpatient programmes. The majority of the role will be with outpatients. Depending on service need, you may be expected to work flexibly across sites (Paddington and Harrow-on-the Hill clinics). Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
2. To diagnose patients’ eating and related psychiatric problems.
3. To formulate and implement plans for treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence based models for eating disorders.
4. To be responsible for implementing interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.
5. 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.
6. To integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions.
7. To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient’s care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patient’s physical safety.
8. To understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology).
9. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
10. To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
11. To contribute directly and indirectly to 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.
12. 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.
13. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
14. To act as care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA (to include clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care).
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An upper second class honours degree or higher in a subject relevant to mental health and higher level postgraduate training in an applied clinical field that includes models of psychopathology and distinct psychological therapies. PLUS Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC. or Or CBT therapist- Must be fully or provisionally accredited with the BABCP or have completed a BABCP accredited high intensity CBT course or diploma programme.
- Clinical experience of delivering CBT and/or MANTRA or CAT in a relevant psychological post
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in CBT for eating disorders. ADOS trained MANTRA trained
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of psychological assessment and evidence-based treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- Substantial experience of working within a CBT and/or MANTRA or CAT framework with patients who present with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Supervised experience of delivering evidence-based therapies for the eating disorders and common comorbid conditions.
- Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS.
Desirable criteria
- Supervised experience of delivering other treatments for the eating disorders, such as CAT or MANTRA and motivational work. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for understanding, formulating and treating the eating disorders.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of mental health.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, 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.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one other specialised psychological therapy.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioural therapy.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Publication and presentation of clinical research in the field of the eating disorders or associated areas of mental health.
Attitudes, aptitudes, and personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
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
- Laura Craster
- Job title
- Senior CBT therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 685 6218
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