Band 8A Clinical Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorders Outpatient Team

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

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Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 8A Clinical Psychologist to work in our Adult Eating Disorders team. The team is expanding, and we are increasing the provision of Clinical Psychology.

Our highly specialised, vibrant, and nurturing team provides a wealth of experience supporting training opportunities and leadership development in an inspiring time of committed service development.

In a supportive environment, you will be encouraged to develop your competencies and contribution to your profession towards the advancement of a psychologically informed environment. By working with a range of MDT colleagues you have an active role in a dynamic team.

We are excited to offer opportunities to train in CBT-ED and MANTRA (both NICE recommended treatment models for eating disorders) providing specific therapeutic frameworks in the context of working with clinical complexity and co-morbidity.

We are a research active service and you will be supported to be involved in projects both locally and nationally. There will be scope to develop and shape your special interests where these align with the needs of the service and communities we serve.

There are also opportunities to work closely with our inpatient service, located in the same building and providing support to patients across the East Midlands region.

Part time hours/flexible working patterns will be considered in line with service need.

We are also advertising this post as a Band 7 Developmental post- seeC9313-23-0056

Main duties of the job

Our team supports adults who have an eating disorder, providing individual care plans for recovery through evidence-based interventions and strong therapeutic relationships

The role of the Band 8A clinical psychologist involves managing your own caseload, providing assessments, care plans, risk assessments, and reviews as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The provision of supervision and training to other staff, both internally and externally is part of the role.

A good understanding of the physical and psychological risks experienced by our patients will be helpful and you will be supported with this alongside training and development opportunities relevant to your role equipping you with specialist skills.

This will be an opportunity for you to learn new skills in a supportive and dynamic environment, starting a new career in this highly specialist area.

You will have regular clinical supervision, either group or individual, to support your practice; and you will attend regular team meetings for effective communication.

You will also be able to take part in our weekly CPD programme, where we have an extensive range of speakers.

We have a strong culture of research and a continuous drive for improving quality. There is plentiful opportunity to contribute to our ongoing programme.

In contributing to the running of the service and leading on specific areas of interest we will invest in you and your career, but we also will gain from your experience and innovations.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

22 May 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-23-0059

Job locations

Forest Grange Outpatients, Bennion Centre

Groby Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We are hosting an open day for those interested in the role to come, visit and meet our team.

There is the opportunity to do this virtually if an in-person visit is not possible. Open day is Monday 12th June to book a slot please contact Caroline Webb on caroline.webb3@nhs.net

If you are interested and have any questions please phone 0116 2252557

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

We are hosting an open day for those interested in the role to come, visit and meet our team.

There is the opportunity to do this virtually if an in-person visit is not possible. Open day is Monday 12th June to book a slot please contact Caroline Webb on caroline.webb3@nhs.net

If you are interested and have any questions please phone 0116 2252557

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Training in clinical psychology to a doctoral standard or its equivalent as accredited by the HCPC.
Post qualification training and recorded CPD experience and/or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychologicalpractice/ specialised psychological therapy
Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists

Experience

Essential

Post Qualification experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients in a range of settings including inpatient, out-patients, community and primary care settings.
Experience of supervising psychologists and/or other professionals.
Experience of teaching and training others using a variety of complex materials suitable for multimedia presentations to a variety of audiences within public, professional and academic settings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Training in clinical psychology to a doctoral standard or its equivalent as accredited by the HCPC.
Post qualification training and recorded CPD experience and/or further qualifications in one or more additional specialised areas of psychologicalpractice/ specialised psychological therapy
Formal training in the supervision of other psychologists

Experience

Essential

Post Qualification experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity.
Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients in a range of settings including inpatient, out-patients, community and primary care settings.
Experience of supervising psychologists and/or other professionals.
Experience of teaching and training others using a variety of complex materials suitable for multimedia presentations to a variety of audiences within public, professional and academic settings.

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.