Job summary
The community-based eating disorder service provides assessment and intervention within a stepped care approach for children and young people with an eating disorder - anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and atypical eating disorders. The team works closely with other CAMHS staff to enable children and young people with an eating disorder to access the full range of supportive interventions available. Operating out of all CAMHS hubs, the team also offer a home treatment and family support element.
You will provide specialist psychology informed assessments and interventions for children and young people referred to the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service. Youwill be expected to work closely with our Core CAMHS and Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Team (CCETT) and support staff in carrying out comprehensive assessments for these children and young people (CYP); produce clear formulations to understand the presenting concerns; agree comprehensive treatment and care plans.
Main duties of the job
You will have a key role in providing consultation to professionals and guide on formulations to help gain an understanding of the child's presentation agree appropriate interventions. You will be expected to be able to work flexibly across the county.
You will have specialist training and experience and will provide supervision and consultation to staff within the team, and wider CYP service and partner agencies.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT CAMHS-EDS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention. Work as the sole clinician, or in conjunction with other colleagues. To act as Case Coordinator/ Lead Professional where appropriate.
- To be a facilitator providing therapy and psychoeducation interventions to groups of children, young people, carers.
- Experience in and ability to provide at least 2 of the following therapeutic interventions:
- Family Based Therapy (FBT).
- Cognitive-behaviour therapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy FOR Adolescent (IPT-A).
- Systemic work with families and other involved agencies.
- Solution focused therapies.
- Creative therapies.
- Relaxation and visualisation techniques.
- Post Trauma therapy .
Teaching, training and supervision
- To receive regular clinical and line management supervision.
- To assist in providing specialist placements to students/ trainees as appropriate.
- To provide psychologically informed advice, consultation, training and supervision to other CAMHS staff, and partner agencies.
- To assist with the planning, organising and provision of local and county wide in-service training and case discussion forums.
Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care
- To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT CAMHS-EDS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention.
- Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation.
- To provide and assist with the further development of EDS through input to core CAMHS, attending CAMHS team meetings and meetings for Child Psychological Therapies staff. To propose service developments and changes as appropriate.
- Responsible for implementing policies as set out by LPFT CYP services.
- Responsibilities for financial and physical resources.
- Responsible for alerting administrative staff if any materials, questionnaires are running low; are no longer fit for purpose.
- Responsibilities for human resources:
- Ability to supervise more junior staff; volunteers; other professionals.
- To provide effective supervision to more junior practitioners, volunteers and other professionals as appropriate.
- Responsibilities for information resources.
- Responsible for data entry, text processing and storage of data, using paper and computer based entry systems as indicated by LPFT
- Responsible for ensuring the highest standards of clinical record keeping, risk assessment and report writing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT CAMHS-EDS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention. Work as the sole clinician, or in conjunction with other colleagues. To act as Case Coordinator/ Lead Professional where appropriate.
- To be a facilitator providing therapy and psychoeducation interventions to groups of children, young people, carers.
- Experience in and ability to provide at least 2 of the following therapeutic interventions:
- Family Based Therapy (FBT).
- Cognitive-behaviour therapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy FOR Adolescent (IPT-A).
- Systemic work with families and other involved agencies.
- Solution focused therapies.
- Creative therapies.
- Relaxation and visualisation techniques.
- Post Trauma therapy .
Teaching, training and supervision
- To receive regular clinical and line management supervision.
- To assist in providing specialist placements to students/ trainees as appropriate.
- To provide psychologically informed advice, consultation, training and supervision to other CAMHS staff, and partner agencies.
- To assist with the planning, organising and provision of local and county wide in-service training and case discussion forums.
Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care
- To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children and young people referred to LPFT CAMHS-EDS, and their carers and families, where the presenting difficulties and concerns can be managed as a psychologically based intervention.
- Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation.
- To provide and assist with the further development of EDS through input to core CAMHS, attending CAMHS team meetings and meetings for Child Psychological Therapies staff. To propose service developments and changes as appropriate.
- Responsible for implementing policies as set out by LPFT CYP services.
- Responsibilities for financial and physical resources.
- Responsible for alerting administrative staff if any materials, questionnaires are running low; are no longer fit for purpose.
- Responsibilities for human resources:
- Ability to supervise more junior staff; volunteers; other professionals.
- To provide effective supervision to more junior practitioners, volunteers and other professionals as appropriate.
- Responsibilities for information resources.
- Responsible for data entry, text processing and storage of data, using paper and computer based entry systems as indicated by LPFT
- Responsible for ensuring the highest standards of clinical record keeping, risk assessment and report writing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications and experience to Masters Level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work, clinical/counselling/health psychology, or occupational therapy
- Registered member of HCPC
Desirable
- Masters degree
- Additional post graduate qualifications relevant to child and adolescent mental health
- Additional accredited training
- Specialist post qualification training in psychological therapy with children and families to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma level
- Accreditation with the appropriate accrediting bodies governing the specific modality (e.g. BABCP)
- Non-medical prescribing
Experience
Essential
- Working in an MDT setting
- Substantial experience of working with children, adolescent and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties, including family relationship problems, including experience of working young people with eating disorders.
- Experience of undertaking clinical assessment with children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties including those with an eating disorder.
- Experience in developing clinical formulations
- Experience of developing and providing psychology interventions and intervention packages for children, young people, and their families, including children and young people with eating disorders - individually; in groups; to whole families
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and young people
- Experience of providing psychological advice to parents and carers and staff concerning the care and/or therapeutic provision for children and young people, including young people with eating disorders.
- Significant experience working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Managing a caseload and associated professional activities under supervision
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
- Experience of using ROM
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
Desirable
- Working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work in partnership with service users, carers, colleagues and other agencies
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing complex technical and sensitive information to children, young people and families/carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS
- Good standard of verbal and written skills
- Able to work effectively as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to relate relevant theory to practice
- Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative
- Organisational, time management, report writing and record keeping skills
- IT skills
- Ability to manage change and motivate staff
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development
- Ability to work under pressure
- Caring and sensitive to the needs of service users, staff and colleagues
- Ability to identify and manage exposure to distressing situations and challenging behaviours
- Be able to listen carefully to a young person who may be distressed and be able to maintain the therapeutic role and task
- Keep accurate records of sessions and be able to compete ROM using IT systems
Desirable
- Service development or Project management skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications and experience to Masters Level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work, clinical/counselling/health psychology, or occupational therapy
- Registered member of HCPC
Desirable
- Masters degree
- Additional post graduate qualifications relevant to child and adolescent mental health
- Additional accredited training
- Specialist post qualification training in psychological therapy with children and families to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma level
- Accreditation with the appropriate accrediting bodies governing the specific modality (e.g. BABCP)
- Non-medical prescribing
Experience
Essential
- Working in an MDT setting
- Substantial experience of working with children, adolescent and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties, including family relationship problems, including experience of working young people with eating disorders.
- Experience of undertaking clinical assessment with children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties including those with an eating disorder.
- Experience in developing clinical formulations
- Experience of developing and providing psychology interventions and intervention packages for children, young people, and their families, including children and young people with eating disorders - individually; in groups; to whole families
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and young people
- Experience of providing psychological advice to parents and carers and staff concerning the care and/or therapeutic provision for children and young people, including young people with eating disorders.
- Significant experience working within multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Managing a caseload and associated professional activities under supervision
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
- Experience of using ROM
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
Desirable
- Working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work in partnership with service users, carers, colleagues and other agencies
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing complex technical and sensitive information to children, young people and families/carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside of the NHS
- Good standard of verbal and written skills
- Able to work effectively as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to relate relevant theory to practice
- Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative
- Organisational, time management, report writing and record keeping skills
- IT skills
- Ability to manage change and motivate staff
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development
- Ability to work under pressure
- Caring and sensitive to the needs of service users, staff and colleagues
- Ability to identify and manage exposure to distressing situations and challenging behaviours
- Be able to listen carefully to a young person who may be distressed and be able to maintain the therapeutic role and task
- Keep accurate records of sessions and be able to compete ROM using IT systems
Desirable
- Service development or Project management skills
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
