Job overview
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will be ale to negotiate a set working week of between 22.5 hours to 37.5 hours.
Are you an experienced & creative Clinical Psychologist, passionate about service innovation, development and transformation? We are seeking an enthusiastic & compassionate Clinical Psychologist with experience of working in Eating Disorders services to join a new multidisciplinary team of professionals.
This is an exciting opportunity for the post holder to drive innovation throughout the Eating Disorders Service in GHC in a role that will focus on service re-design and recovery from the pandemic. The service is engaged in a full transformation programme that will allow the successful candidate to consider the implementation of psychological interventions and new treatment initiatives and the development of psychological and clinical workforce roles to ensure that the service is able to effectively and safely treat the patient group who access it.
You will demonstrate strong leadership skills, have extensive experience of multiagency working & a proven track record of delivering high quality psychological interventions. Experience of working within a physical health/paediatric context would also be helpful in terms of confidently managing the demands that flow through this developing clinical service.
Main duties of the job
You will take a lead role in ensuring this forward thinking service is psychologically informed, demonstrating competence in consultation, training, supervision & committed to promoting psychological thinking with the team.
- To contribute toward service re-design and recovery
- To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of clients in the Eating Disorders team within the Trust.
- To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the team, across all sectors of care.
- To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise delegated responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy.
The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live.
Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care.
So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology or other relevant Applied Psychology as accredited by the B.P.S and conferring eligibility for HPC Registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Evidence of formal post graduate learning within a CAMHS setting.
Desirable
- Relevant child focused therapeutic training.
Length and/or Nature of Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate broad range of post qualification experience working at an expert level in an autonomous capacity, with extensive experience of providing clinically expert, high quality, safe and effective assessment, formulation and interventions for children and young people.
- Receipt of at least 50 hours clinical supervision while working at a highly specialist level in a directly relevant area and in an increasingly autonomous capacity
- Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise in delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or paediatrics.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a health psychology context
- Experience of working with children and young people with health conditions
- Experience of working with children and young people with excess weight
- Postgraduate qualification in Health Psychology
- Experience of facilitating group work with young people
Professional /Managerial/ Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Expert knowledge of lifespan developmental child and adolescent psychology (including psychometrics) including current evidence-based practice.
- The knowledge may have been developed in a variety of ways. Appropriate evidence could include relevant research, publications or outcomes of previous work in the specialism.
- Demonstrate clinical expertise and expert clinical formulation and reasoning regarding a range of evidenced-based professional interventions, including current best practice related to a CAMHS/ Paediatrics setting, including the therapeutic use and application of CAMHS specific interventions, i.e. CBT, DBT, family therapy
Desirable
- Experience of supporting the recruitment, selection and development of new staff.
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This advert is for Lead Clinical Psychologist (Eating Disorders) with Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucester, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Aug 2026.
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