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Job overview

The Nottinghamshire Eating Disorder Service (NEDS) is an adult community team supporting people with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa and comorbid mental, physical and social difficulties. The multi-disciplinary team has grown substantially in 2022 and we are now looking to appoint a second clinical psychologist in order to improve our clinical offering to those accessing our service. The post is being offered as Band 7 or Band 8a dependent on experience, with supervision being tailored to match the post holder’s skills and competencies.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will ideally be skilled in therapeutic approaches tailored for people with eating disorders (CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM) or will be skilled clinicians motivated to train and develop in these therapies. Our team has a strong focus on compassionate working with service users and reflective and supportive teamworking. Whilst staff in the team hold individual caseloads, the working environment is open and collaborative, with weekly team meetings, cross-professional supervision and reflective practice.

The post holder will offer specialist assessment and psychological therapy, drawing on therapeutic skills in working with people experiencing additional challenges such as trauma, anxiety, depression and difficulties related to autism spectrum disorder.  They will provide liaison, consultation and support to other agencies.  The post holder will be aware of the physical health aspects of eating disorders and familiar with relevant guidance in order to work alongside medical colleagues and staff in inpatient settings as appropriate.

The post holder will have opportunities to be involved in broader aspects of work, including service development activities at a regional level, supervising placement students, and service evaluation and research activities. The team is very active in training and continuing professional development and we welcome applicants with a positive orientation towards professional growth and challenge.

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.  We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.  We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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