Eating Disorder Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist

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We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologists or CBT Therapists in the Psychological Therapies Team within the Eating Disorders Service.

As a successful candidate, you will be working predominantly in the Outpatient Service which consists of a multidisciplinary team of Psychiatry, Psychology, Community Liaison Nursing, Dieticians, Occupational Therapy, and Peer Support. You will be providing treatment for Outpatients as well as supervising and managing Assistant Psychologists, Trainees and Band 7 Psychologists. You will also be supporting the Principal Psychologist and Therapies Lead by representing the Psychological Therapies Team in several MDT meetings weekly, managing the waiting lists, overseeing the planning for groups, assisting in recruitment. Being part of the Psychological Therapies Team, you will attend, and frequently chair, the weekly Psychological Therapies meeting, and receive weekly supervision from the Principal Psychologist to support your work. You will also attend fortnightly CPD sessions arranged for the Psychological Therapies Team as well as a monthly Clinical Improvement Group where the whole service meets on a monthly basis and a fortnightly reflective practice group.

Main duties of the job

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Working for our organisation

The St Ann's Eating Disorders Service (SAEDS), based at St Ann's Hospital in Haringey, is part of the Haringey service line of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, which alongside Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust forms the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP). It is a substantial, well-established facility with a regional catchment area that offers a specialist service to adults (18 years upwards) with a primary Eating Disorder. SAEDS provides a service for the three local boroughs of Haringey, Barnet and Enfield as well Camden, Islington, Tower Hamlets, City & Hackney and Newham, which comprises a population of five and a half million.

The multidisciplinary team in the SAEDS offers a comprehensive range of therapeutic interventions including intensive inpatient care, a day programme, community liaison work, and outpatient services. The Psychological Therapies Team, a significant part of the EDS, includes qualified Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, CBT Therapists, Assistant Psychologists, a Research Assistant, a Family Therapist and an Art Therapist. We also regularly have trainee Clinical and Counselling Psychologists on placement within our team. Managerial and professional accountability are to the Principal Psychologist who, in turn, reports managerially to the Service Lead of the EDS.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or Counselling Psychology (or BPS accredited equivalent), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS. Or have a post graduate diploma/degree in CBT and be fully accredited with the BABCP.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies, including CBT.
• HCPC registration (Clinical/Counselling Psychologist) or BABCP accreditation (CBT therapists)

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with people with eating disorders.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or providing supervision for others
• Experience of facilitating group therapy

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• 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
• The ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Ability to work independently and manage busy caseload.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to facilitate positive multi-disciplinary relationships

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 592.3KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 218.6KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)