# Senior Psychologist - Community Adult Eating Disorder Service > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-psychologist-community-adult-eating-disorder-service/96d08c03-dbe3-4b57-9a5b-3b5c51747b01 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-psychologist-community-adult-eating-disorder-service/96d08c03-dbe3-4b57-9a5b-3b5c51747b01.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Wickford - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Psychologist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-01T08:21:59.262Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/Essex_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Clinical_Counselling_Psychologist_Eating_Disorders_Service/Senior_Clinical_Counselling_Psychologist_Eating_Disorders_Service-v8047356 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8047356?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.eput.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Eating Disorders Service This is an exciting opportunity for an established role in a growing team, at Band 8a as maternity cover. The Community Adult Eating Disorders Service is a specialist team who offer assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe eating disorders. This will be in response to service needs and will involve working across the south of Essex and may involve working across the north of Essex. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to adults with eating disorders across both community out-patient and intensive community day treatment services. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to those referred to the team. Where appropriate, the post holder will also take a lead in ensuring that family therapy or family interventions are available to those seen within the service. The post holder will be required to: - Work across locality and interagency boundaries to meet the needs of a highly complex client group. - Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. - Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. - Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist/psychotherapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. - Use appropriate evidence based psychological therapies for example Family Therapy, MANTRA or CBT-E. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities. ## Job Details Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Eating Disorders Service This is an exciting opportunity for an established role in a growing team, at Band 8a as maternity cover. The Community Adult Eating Disorders Service is a specialist team who offer assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe eating disorders. This will be in response to service needs and will involve working across the south of Essex and may involve working across the north of Essex. ## Job Description The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to adults with eating disorders across both community out-patient and intensive community day treatment services. The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to those referred to the team. Where appropriate, the post holder will also take a lead in ensuring that family therapy or family interventions are available to those seen within the service. The post holder will be required to: Work across locality and interagency boundaries to meet the needs of a highly complex client group. Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service. Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist/psychotherapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. Use appropriate evidence based psychological therapies for example Family Therapy, MANTRA or CBT-E. ## Responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology and research design. - Evidence of continued professional development as recommended by the relevant professional or registering body - Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups **Desirable** - Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/ Psychotherapists as appropriate to their training and qualifications - Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health speciality ### Experience **Essential** - 12 months post-qualification experience in an eating disorder service **Desirable** - Experience of supervising qualified psychologists ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Doctoral level training in applied psychology, as accredited by the BPS. - HCPC Registered ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 152.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2990) - [job description (pdf, 712.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10336298) - [person specification (pdf, 544.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10336299) - [candidate privacy policy (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1853) - [right to work information (pdf, 293.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2355) - [values of the nhs pension (pdf, 151.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2659) - [employer recognition scheme - gold award (pdf, 27.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2451) ## 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.