Job summary
Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust Eating Disorder service is going through a system wide mental health transformation programme in line with the Long-Term Plan (LTP). This expansion is planned to improve care delivery and parity of esteem between physical and mental health and ensure that everyone in Lincolnshire who is experiencing an eating disorder will receive a service. This is an exciting time to join the team when we are looking to expand our workforce and train more people to deliver eating disorder therapies across Lincolnshire.
We are looking to recruit a CBT Practitioner, which is one of the most effective evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and you will have a passion to support service users with an eating disorder to recover. Experience is not essential as training and guidance will be given to develop your expertise in this area.
For those who do not have CBT-E training, there will be an opportunity to attend an additional 1 year's training in CBT-E to complete the eating disorder specialism, subject to successful application to the course.
During this training period you will attend Sheffield University one day a week, receive supervision from an experienced eating disorder professional to support the development and your understanding of the model.
For further information please contact Faye Yuill, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, f.yuill@nhs.net or Heather Killick, Team Manager h.killick@nhs.net or by phone on 01522 421621.
Main duties of the job
- You will work within a well-established team, however you will be required to deliver an autonomous service as part of your role, operating within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust's policies and procedures.
- You will provide assessment and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT/CBT-e) to patients who are referred into the Eating Disorders Service who present with an eating disorder, including co-morbid presentation of anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma related problems for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.
- To provide support, advice and supervision to staff working in the Eating Disorders Service in regard to implementing CBT/CBT-e based interventions. This will either be on an individual basis or within a group environment.
- You will provide line management supervision to staff in line with service requirement.
- To provide needs assessment and risk assessment, planning, and implementation and monitor effectiveness of interventions to adults with an eating disorder.
- You will work with patients with different cultural backgrounds and should be committed to equal opportunities
- You will actively encourage and support service user involvement and will support staff to incorporate Routine Outcome Measures into their assessment and therapeutic work.
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
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the services.
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to service referral protocols, and signpost patients who require other services, both internal and external, onto the relevant service as necessary.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for adults referred into the service.
- Adhere to an agreed number of clinical sessions to be carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- Adhere to the recommended number of clinical contacts offered (unless sound clinical reason for not doing so and agreed with clinical supervisor).
- Provide support, advice and supervision to staff working within the Adult Eating Disorders Service in regard to implementing CBT/CBT-e based interventions.
- Attend meetings relating to referrals of adults in treatment, where appropriate.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
- Work closely with other members of the MDTs, ensuring good continuity of care appropriate to need.
- Participate in the Duty Officer rota to RAG rate referrals received into the Service as per the local Services RAG rating protocol as well as offer advice and guidance to anyprofessionals.
- Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including patient surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the services.
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to service referral protocols, and signpost patients who require other services, both internal and external, onto the relevant service as necessary.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for adults referred into the service.
- Adhere to an agreed number of clinical sessions to be carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- Adhere to the recommended number of clinical contacts offered (unless sound clinical reason for not doing so and agreed with clinical supervisor).
- Provide support, advice and supervision to staff working within the Adult Eating Disorders Service in regard to implementing CBT/CBT-e based interventions.
- Attend meetings relating to referrals of adults in treatment, where appropriate.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
- Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
- Work closely with other members of the MDTs, ensuring good continuity of care appropriate to need.
- Participate in the Duty Officer rota to RAG rate referrals received into the Service as per the local Services RAG rating protocol as well as offer advice and guidance to anyprofessionals.
- Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including patient surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate diploma in CBT/CBT-e and Accreditation with BABCP.
- Professional qualification such as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or psychological therapy
- If not trained in CBT-e will be willing to undertake the necessary training as recommended by NICE guidelines for eating disorders
- Further specialist courses equivalent to Masters Level or equivalent level of experience
Desirable
- Training in CBT-e.
- Training in specific psychological therapies, CBT and DBT.
- Clinical supervision training
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment interventions.
- Knowledge and skill in the delivery of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies - individual and group
- Knowledge and skill in the practice of a wide range of psychological interventions in the treatment of patients with a broad range of mental health problems, such as eating disorders, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression within the context of a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
- Ability to transfer complex concepts to individual levels.
- Ability to transfer problem solving, communication and personal development skills to individual patient needs and abilities.
- Ability to develop excellent therapeutic relationship with patients and their carers.
- Good interpersonal skills in working with interdisciplinary teams.
- Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, highly clinical and sensitive information to patients, medical professionals, families, carers and other professionals within and outside the NHS Trust
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcome
- Experience of offering clinical and caseload management supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working with eating disorders
- Evidence of working in other related fields, CMHT, CAMHS, learning disability, personality disorder.
- Research, evaluation and audit skills.
Skills
Essential
- Computer literate
- Has received training and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Completed clinical audits within a service.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across Lincolnshire
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate diploma in CBT/CBT-e and Accreditation with BABCP.
- Professional qualification such as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or psychological therapy
- If not trained in CBT-e will be willing to undertake the necessary training as recommended by NICE guidelines for eating disorders
- Further specialist courses equivalent to Masters Level or equivalent level of experience
Desirable
- Training in CBT-e.
- Training in specific psychological therapies, CBT and DBT.
- Clinical supervision training
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment interventions.
- Knowledge and skill in the delivery of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies - individual and group
- Knowledge and skill in the practice of a wide range of psychological interventions in the treatment of patients with a broad range of mental health problems, such as eating disorders, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression within the context of a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
- Ability to transfer complex concepts to individual levels.
- Ability to transfer problem solving, communication and personal development skills to individual patient needs and abilities.
- Ability to develop excellent therapeutic relationship with patients and their carers.
- Good interpersonal skills in working with interdisciplinary teams.
- Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, highly clinical and sensitive information to patients, medical professionals, families, carers and other professionals within and outside the NHS Trust
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcome
- Experience of offering clinical and caseload management supervision
Desirable
- Experience of working with eating disorders
- Evidence of working in other related fields, CMHT, CAMHS, learning disability, personality disorder.
- Research, evaluation and audit skills.
Skills
Essential
- Computer literate
- Has received training and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Completed clinical audits within a service.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Special requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across Lincolnshire
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).
