Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL Eating Disorder service as a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Specialist CBT Therapist.

Main duties of the job:

• This position involves providing specialist therapies (CBT-E, MANTRA, CBT-AR) to clients across all sectors of care, although the majority of the work will be with outpatients.
• This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, whilst also offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and to other non-professional carers.
• The post holder will carry out clinical duties, clinically-relevant audit and research (as appropriate), and relevant administrative duties.

About Us:

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.

Job responsibilities:

• The role covers assessment, care planning, intervention (with individuals and groups) and building strong relationships with partners in the community.
• To provide assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
• To diagnose patients' eating and related psychiatric problems.
• To 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 methods based upon evidence-based models for eating disorders.
• To be responsible for implementing interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
• To integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions.
• To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient's care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patient's physical safety.
• To understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology).
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
• To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
• To 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.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
• To act as care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA (to include 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.

Person Specification:

Essential Experience & Skills:

• Extensive experience of psychological assessment and evidence-based treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Substantial experience of working within a CBT and/or MANTRA framework with patients who present with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Supervised experience of delivering evidence-based therapies for the eating disorders and common comorbid conditions.
• Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS.
• Knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for understanding, formulating and treating the eating disorders.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• 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 both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of mental health.

Desirable:

• Supervised experience of delivering evidence-based therapies for the eating disorders and common comorbid conditions.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of CBT in different cultural contexts.
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one other specialised psychological therapy.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Publication and presentation of clinical research.

Education and Qualifications:

• An upper second class honours degree or higher in a subject relevant to mental health and higher level postgraduate training in an applied clinical field that includes models of psychopathology and distinct psychological therapies.
• CBT therapist - Must be fully or provisionally accredited with the BABCP or have completed a BABCP accredited high intensity CBT course or diploma programme. OR Clinical/Counselling Psychologist registered with the HCPC.
• UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship:

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Employer details:

• Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
• Address: Vincent Square Eating Disorders Service, 260 Harrow Road, London, W2 5ES
• Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work