Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Preceptorship opportunity

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

1. To provide a highly specialist assessments of clients referred to the Team with eating disorders and engaging families and offering family-based interventions in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
2. To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors. To provide interventions and make recommendations based on specialist NICE informed Psychological understandings of presenting problems for work to be carried out with clients with the team as a whole and provide support and supervision as necessary to team colleagues. (e.g. Mantra, CBT, CAT, MET, FBT)
3. In conjunction with senior clinicians and managers, to develop procedures and processes to the application of specialist NICE informed psychological interventions (also giving consideration to group work) within the eating disorder service drawing on national, divisional and trust-wide standards of evidence based psychological therapy and best clinical care.
4. Together with the Team, to provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment including: psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, engaging in treatment including using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion and crisis intervention.
5. 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, family, carers or group.
6. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment psychological formulation, treatment and discharge of clients and manage and maintain a caseload in line with service guidelines.
7. To provide advice, psychoeducation, information and psychological interventions to relatives and carers as appropriate.
8. To liaise closely with Eating disorder in patient units , attending review meetings for own clients as possible and participating in discharge planning and psychological follow-up
9. To provide highly specialist advice, consultation and training of staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and setting as appropriate. (Including GPs, acute hospital staff, school nurses, universities).
10. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects or risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures.
11. To act as care coordinator, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, tasking responsibility for arranging CPA reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in the network of care, and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
12. To be proactive in planning transition for clients to other adult services in a timely and sensitive manner if this is appropriate, and to act as a link between services.
13. To communication, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
14. To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
15. To provide reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of psychological assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
16. To assist in the management of the team caseload. To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• HPC registered Clinical Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist
• Other Recognised Mental Health Professional Qualification. (i.e. Registered Mental Nurse; Social Worker or Occupational Therapist) and Post registration clinical qualifications and accreditation in a recognised psychological therapy relevant to the treatment of eating disorders e.g. BABCP, BACP, ACAT or UKCP

Desirable

• Evidence of post qualification development
• Post qualification training/development in a psychological therapy (e.g., CBT, CAT, MANTRA).

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience of working with clients with complex presentations.
• Proven experience of good multi-agency working relationships.
• Experience of working with a psychological model.
• Experience of managing own workload to meet objectives.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of working with clients with eating disorders.
• Experience of training others.
• Evidence of supervision training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Evidence of specialist clinical skills of assessment, formulation, and treatment.
• Ability to use time-limited approaches and work in a focused way
• Evidence of excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Show decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Experience of conducting effective risk management assessments.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to foster good inter-team/agency working relationships.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and be proactive.
• Demonstrate ability to be approachable, flexible, and reliable.
• Committed to personal and team development.

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Research, evaluation, and audit skills .

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of working with clients with complex presentations.
• Knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of eating disorders

Desirable

• Knowledge of working with clients with eating disorders.

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Able to travel to different locations in the community
• Able to work independently

Other

Essential

• Demonstrate an understanding and acceptance and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities
• Ability to work remotely

Desirable

• Ability to travel between different locations

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).