Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-COM-26-8071791
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - Eating Disorders Service
NHS AfC: Band 7
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Clinical Psychologist - Eating Disorder Team
This post holder will work across two sites: Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Blossom House, Alder Park, Waterloo
- Right to work: We actively promote diversity and inclusion. This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the Health and Care route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit Health and Care Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for a clinical psychologist with an interest and experience in working with young people with an eating disorder and/or ARFID. The successful applicant will provide a substantial contribution to the clinical work of the team and will hold full case management responsibility for their workload. Regular clinical supervision will be provided.
The main base for this post will be at Alder Hey, but appointments from community bases across Liverpool and Sefton will be required. Experience working with children and young people with an eating disorder will be beneficial. In addition to undertaking assessments and providing intervention and support to children, young people and their families, the post holder will also undertake physical monitoring under the guidance of our Consultant Paediatricians.
The post holders must be able to demonstrate a positive attitude which encompasses our Trust Values of
Compassion – We see you and act.
Courage – We speak up and step forward.
Commitment – We keep our promises.
Community – We lift each other up.
If you are enthusiastic and confident with a friendly and outgoing manner, and a focus on providing the best possible service to patients we would like to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
About the team: The Eating Disorder Team (EDYs) provide support and treatment for children and young people in Liverpool and Sefton with an eating disorder and/or ARFID, as well as their parents/carers and professionals involved in their care.
This is a multidisciplinary team including Consultant Psychiatrist and Consultant Paediatricians, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy, CBT and SFP trained staff, Nursing, Support Worker, Assistant Practitioner and Assistant Psychology. The team is based on site at Alder Hey, but offer appointments throughout the community footprint.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, please take a look at the job description and person specification attachments.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or it’s equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of Psychopathology, Clinical Psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology with evidence of specific experience of CAMHS.
- Current registration with the health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- A Formal training in the supervision of others
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and their families across the full range of care settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity
- maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and possible physical aggression.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in those groups with complex presentations e.g. dual diagnoses, children and adolescents with additional disabilities.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Working with eating disorders
Skills
Essential criteria
- ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information
- providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
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
- Megan Richards
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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