Eating Disorders Senior Therapist

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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity is here fore the SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.

We are looking for a a senior clinician is to support the development and implementation of a range of interventions for the SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service .

The post holder will work another Clinical Lead and Team Manager to help support the delivery of psychological support across the service. They will be responsible for assessment, treatment and outcome measurement and provide clinical supervision to staff as well as development.

This post would suit clinicians with an extensive experience in working with young people who present with complexity and significant levels of distress, working with the wider systems including education, social care and family/carers.

As a senior clinician within the service, you will bring highly developed knowledge of specialist therapeutic assessment, formulation and intervention skills and specific knowledge and expertise in psychological interventions.

This is an exciting time to join the SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service as we have recently been commissioned to develop and offer an Intensive Support Programme for young people to prevent tier 4 admissions .

We are currently meeting all waiting time standards and offer an excellent package of care.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an individual who has experience in working with children and young people with eating disorders and their families and is passionate about delivering good quality, patient-led, care. We will support candidates to develop skills in delivering evidence-based treatment. Families are at the heart of all of the work we do, and the intensive pathway will fit with the current evidence-based treatment approach, namely the Maudsley family-based treatment.

The intensive community treatment pathway is also being developed within our service. The role will involve a mixture face to face working which will need to be offered in response to the demands of the service. This is a developing service which we will continue to evaluate against the needs of the families and young people accessing the service.

The applicant will work alongside colleagues within the MDT to provide NICE concordant psychological interventions to young people and families with eating disorders and comorbid presentations. In addition, our team has pioneered the integration of FT-AN for eating disorders within the UK. As a member of the CAMHS ED team you would have access to specialist supervision in FT-AN. Supervision will be offered by a senior member of the team from the same discipline where possible. There will be access to regular individual and group supervision and safeguarding supervision.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on the vacancy.

As an inclusive and supportive team applications are welcomed by professionals from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, including mental health nurses, counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists, social workers, art psychotherapists, drama therapists, occupational therapist and other suitably qualified professional staff that meet the person specification and who are currently registered with an appropriate professional body.

Certificates of Sponsorship

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Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. psychologist, or family therapist)

Registration

Essential criteria

• To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, ACP, AFT, NMC)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people in crisis with complex mental health problems

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research desig and ability to critically interpret research findings.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

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In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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

• Clinical Lead 8A (PDF, 480.8KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)