Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist (CAMHS Eating Disorders)

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing service which has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention. You will provide specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and expert clinical interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, and their families.  There will also be opportunities for the post holder to contribute to ongoing service development potentially focusing on emotion dysregulation and / or less common feeding and eating disorder presentation pathways and / or working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns.

Suitable applicants will have experience in a CAMHS setting and have good knowledge and skills related to NICE concordant treatments for eating disorders and common co-morbid disorders such as OCD, depression and anxiety. In addition, applications from clinical psychologists who have an interest in systemic working, and/or experience of working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns would be welcomed.

Main duties of the job

• To offer assessment and evidence based psychological therapies for young people with an eating disorder and their families.
• To facilitate psycho-educational parents groups and other groups.
• To work with co-morbidities, using formulation driven care-planning.
• To implement behavioural management plans.
• To offer consultation to colleagues in other services.
• Support management of ROMs and audit.
• To hold a case load and act as case manager.
• Supervision of other qualified clinical psychologists and trainees, assistant psychologists, psychology placement students and volunteers.
• Attend all multi disciplinary meetings and care planning reviews and contributes to thinking about young people and their families from a psychological perspective.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide highly specialist clinical psychology services to children, young people and their families / carers; providing evidence-based psychological assessment and treatment in line with NICE guidance.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child or young person’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care.  To work within Trust and professional guidelines.
• To support the Departmental clinical governance structure through the provision of clinical supervision in relation to specific modalities of psychotherapy and by providing clinical input to supervisees’ PADRs.
• Within supervision, team meetings and other fora, to support and promote the use of measures within the CYP IAPT framework to evolve clinical practice and enhance user experience.
• To seek opportunities to include service user perspectives in how services are delivered.
• To utilise research skills for practice evaluation and service development, as required by the service and set out in the job plan.
• To work with the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service Professional Lead for Psychology and Psychotherapies to lead the work of a particular aspect of service provision.