# Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/CBT Therapist- Eating Disorders **Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: London **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9333-26-1346?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0f75a0fc-8f8 ## Description An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL eating disorders service. We are offering a fixed term part time Clinical/Counselling Psychologist/ CBT Therapist post within the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service. This position involves providing specialist therapies (CBT-E, MANTRA, CBT-AR) to clients across all sectors of care. This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, whilst also offering advice and consultation on clients' psychological care to colleagues and to other non professional carers. **Job Responsibilities:** - Provide assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources. - Diagnose patients eating and related psychiatric problems. - Formulate and implement plans for treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence-based models for eating disorders. - 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. - Integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions. - Liaise with other clinicians involved in the patients care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patients physical safety. - Understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology). - Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. - Provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans. - Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. - Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management. - Communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. - Act as care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA (to include clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved thenetwork of care). **Teaching, Training, and Supervision:** - Receive regular clinical professional supervision from a senior clinician and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues. - Attend Staff Group with other colleagues in the service. - Provide professional and clinical supervision of junior colleagues and trainees, as appropriate. - Contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of other professionals, as appropriate. - Provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate. - Undertake all mandatory training that is relevant to the post, including updates. **Person Specification:** - Extensive experience of psychological assessment and evidence-based treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. - Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS. - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioural therapy. - Knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for understanding, formulating and treating the eating disorders. - Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively. - Experience in mental health risk assessment and management. ## Skills ### Required - CBT-E - MANTRA - CBT-AR - psychological assessment - evidence-based treatment - cognitive-behavioural therapy - mental health risk assessment and management ### Nice to have - Supervised experience of delivering evidence-based therapies for the eating disorders and common comorbid conditions - Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one other specialised psychological therapy - Publication and presentation of clinical research --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9333-26-1346?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)