Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be a qualified Clinical Psychologist with passion for working with children, young people and families. You will have the knowledge and skills to undertake complex assessments and deliver evidence-based and outcome monitored psychological therapies. You will be a reflective practitioner with strengths to bring to a multi-disciplinary team and consultative work. You will be committed to service user participation and collaborative working with children, young people, parents, carers and families. You will have a good understanding of safeguarding across the lifespan. You will have, or be willing to develop skills and knowledge to support the development of others, such as supervision and training, as well as clinical leadership skills to contribute to quality improvement and service development.

Eating Disorder Pathway

The Eating Disorder Pathway is a county-wide pathway with locality hubs within it. This role would ideally be based either in Torbay & South Devon in our Lescaze base or our North Devon base in Barnstable, dependent on the preferences of the applicant and service need.

As a Clinical Psychologist in the pathway, you will work within a strong multi-disciplinary team that includes; Clinical Psychology, Systemic Psychotherapists, Family Therapists, Psychiatrists, Assistant Psychologists, and Mental Health Practitioners from a range of backgrounds.

Colleagues working in this pathway offer specialist assessment and treatment for young people who present with significant mental health concerns related to eating. You would contribute to this work as well as providing consultation and support to other agencies and working closely with partners in paediatrics and inpatient CAMHS. You will contribute to team discussions, bringing enhanced formulation skills as well as knowledge and experience to support the team processes, reflections and formulation.

There are opportunities for involvement in service development and research as well as activities to support developing leadership skills. There will be access to a supervision of supervision group to support development of supervision skills and opportunities to lead assessment and formulation meetings.

The Eating Disorder Pathway has established strengths in providing evidence based systemic psychotherapy intervention for Eating Disorders. In line with our focus on evidence-based practice, we are developing our CBT offer alongside this and encourage applications from people who can support the provision of CBT in the eating disorder pathway alongside wider work. While CBT for eating disorders will be a part of this work, comorbidities mean that our Clinical Psychologists also offer CBT for other difficulties such as OCD, low mood, anxiety, emetophobia, PTSD etc. We would love to hear from people with an interest in accessing further training in CBT for eating disorders including CBT-E and CBT-T.

Main contacts:

Lucy Jay, Operations Manager for the Eating Disorder Pathway [email protected]

James Skinner, Clinical Lead for Eating Disorder Pathway- [email protected]

Dr Cliodhna O Leary, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Eating Disorder Pathway [email protected]

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
• Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

Desirable

• Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people
• Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
• Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
• Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.
• Experience in providing teaching and training
• Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
• Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice.
• Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required

Desirable

• Experience in using neuropsychological assessments of cognitive functioning and/or learning disabilities in the context of diagnostic assessments of learning disabilities.
• Experience of the assessment of capacity to consent and providing consultation to capacity assessments across a range of issues.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children.
• High level knowledge of Clinical presentations in children and young people
• Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.

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 .

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Integrated Childrens Services

Fishleigh Road

Roundswell Business Park

Barnstaple

Devon

EX31 3UD