CAT Therapist or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL Eating Disorder service as a Cognitive Analytic Therapist or a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist and/or Specialist CBT Therapist. This position involves providing specialist therapies (CAT, CBT-E, MANTRA, CBT-AR) to clients across all sectors of care, with the majority of work likely to be with outpatients. The post holder will carry out clinical duties, clinically-relevant audit and research (as appropriate), and relevant administrative duties.

The post holder will be based at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service, 260 Harrow Road, London, W2 5ES and our clinic at Roxborough Road in Harrow, HA1 1NS. Depending on service need, you may be expected to work flexibly across these sites. Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for assessment, care planning, intervention (with individuals and groups) and building strong relationships with partners in the community.
• Provide assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• Diagnose patients with eating and related psychiatric problems.
• Formulate and implement plans for treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing evidence-based models for eating disorders.
• Implement interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, employed individually and in synthesis.
• Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, considering theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
• Integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of eating disorders and associated medical conditions.
• Liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient’s care to ensure appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure physical safety.
• Understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology).
• Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• Provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
• Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
• Act as care coordinator where appropriate, initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA (including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care).

If you have any questions about the role, enquiries from interested candidates are welcome.