Clinical Psychologist - Children's Eating Disorders in Bury St Edmunds

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

Please note due to the nature of our roles and patient demographic, you will be required to undertake physical intervention training and remain trained, as required by your role.

This role involves working in a small, friendly multi-disciplinary team to provide psychological interventions for young people with eating disorders and their families. The role is split between our bases in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. There are opportunities to link up with other psychological therapists across the wider eating disorders service. We will provide regular clinical supervision, and relevant specialist training and opportunities for professional development, for example CBT for eating disorders. We welcome preceptorship applications for this post.

We are looking to appoint a skilled, committed, and motivated individual with excellent communication and organisational skills and a keen interest in working with families and young people. Previous experience working with individuals with eating disorders is ideal but not essential. We can accommodate some flexible working, in line with the service need and we are a Family Friendly and supportive team.

Main duties of the job:

• Assessment, formulation and psychological treatment of individuals with eating disorders and co-morbid mental health difficulties.
• Clinical responsibility for complex cases.
• Supporting the Clinical Lead with service development projects.
• Providing clinical supervision.
• Providing consultation to colleagues and to external agencies.

Our main models of practice are systemic and CBT so skills in those areas would be desirable.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Post-graduate degree (or its equivalent if trained prior to 1996) in clinical psychology, accredited by BPS. Supervisor training, to be a supervisor of doctoral programme clinical psychology trainees or willing to undertake training. Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Experience: Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 7) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
• Knowledge: Doctor level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
• Skills: Able to effectively communicate technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, families, carers and other professionals, within and outside NHS. Skilled in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.

Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES: Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

This post may be 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.