# Eating Disorders Service Clinical Psychologist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/eating-disorders-service-clinical-psychologist/65e5e8a0-8387-486e-a0bb-40ef24a0ef88 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/eating-disorders-service-clinical-psychologist/65e5e8a0-8387-486e-a0bb-40ef24a0ef88.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Gloucester - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-22T11:11:48.585Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Cheltenham/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Eating_Disorders/Eating_Disorders-v8014142 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8014142?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Service is pleased to offer this permanent Band 7 Clinical Psychology role in our Eating Disorders Community Services, working across the county. We are seeking enthusiastic candidates who can contribute positively and flexibly to a dynamic service. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong commitment to the principles of person-centred service delivery, excellent professional and clinical skills, and preferably experience of work within the Eating Disorders. The role requires the delivery of an applied psychology model that promotes and supports effective psychological outcomes through direct and indirect models of working. Therefore consultation, teaching and training will form an essential component of the post alongside direct clinical work. ### Main duties of the job - To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of children and adults in the Eating Disorders team within the Trust. - Provide a range of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment interventions for all ages in the Community Eating Disorders Service, using a variety of applied psychology models. - To clinically supervise pre-qualified psychology staff. - Contribute toward specialist clinical risk assessments and complex risk management planning as part of routine clinical work. This will include actively contributing to multi-disciplinary clinical discussions and formulations. - To work compassionately with service users and carers to achieve identified goals and to promote independence and well-being. - To work autonomously within professional guidelines. - To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research - To act in a care co-ordination role where necessary and appropriate The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for main responsibilities. The role requires supporting the principle forensic psychologist with the delivery of specialist risk reduction and protection enhancing psychological assessments and interventions, whilst also utilising an applied psychological model that promotes and supports effective psychological outcomes within the multi-disciplinary team. The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas ## Job Details The Service is pleased to offer this permanent Band 7 Clinical Psychology role in our Eating Disorders Community Services, working across the county. We are seeking enthusiastic candidates who can contribute positively and flexibly to a dynamic service. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong commitment to the principles of person-centred service delivery, excellent professional and clinical skills, and preferably experience of work within the Eating Disorders. The role requires the delivery of an applied psychology model that promotes and supports effective psychological outcomes through direct and indirect models of working. Therefore consultation, teaching and training will form an essential component of the post alongside direct clinical work. ## Job Description - To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of children and adults in the Eating Disorders team within the Trust. - Provide a range of highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment interventions for all ages in the Community Eating Disorders Service, using a variety of applied psychology models. - To clinically supervise pre-qualified psychology staff. - Contribute toward specialist clinical risk assessments and complex risk management planning as part of routine clinical work. This will include actively contributing to multi-disciplinary clinical discussions and formulations. - To work compassionately with service users and carers to achieve identified goals and to promote independence and well-being. - To work autonomously within professional guidelines. - To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research - To act in a care co-ordination role where necessary and appropriate The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. ## Responsibilities Please see attached job description for main responsibilities. The role requires supporting the principle forensic psychologist with the delivery of specialist risk reduction and protection enhancing psychological assessments and interventions, whilst also utilising an applied psychological model that promotes and supports effective psychological outcomes within the multi-disciplinary team. The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC ### Nature and length of experience **Essential** - Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems - 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. - Evidence of maintaining effective communication - Proficient in the manipulation of complex Psychological test equipment for use in formal testing situations **Desirable** - Is in process of acquiring clinical experience of an increasingly specialist nature - Some prior experience of supervising. ### professional/ managerial specilaist knowledge **Essential** - Highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models for psychopathology, psychometrics, up to date practice with client group, and two or more psychological therapies. - Knowledge of research methodology, research design, and complex multivariate data analysis consistent with Clinical Psychologist status and as practised within the Applied Psychological professions. ## Documents - [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522) - [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656) - [ghc eating disorders service clinical psychologist band 7 (pdf, 464.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10299996) - [ghc eating disorders service clinical psychologist per spec (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10299997) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.