This is a fantastic opportunity for a Psychologist who is keen to progress into a senior role, and take on some supervisory and leadership tasks. You will receive regular supervision from the 8b Psychologist in the team, and also be supported by the friendly multidisciplinary team consisting of Nursing, Psychiatry, Family Therapy and Dietetics.
The post is varied and offers the opportunity for family work, 1:1 work, group work, multi-agency liaison and consultation, as well as supervision, management and service development tasks. CPD is strongly supported and training could be provided in new treatment models, such as Family-Based Therapy for Anorexia/Bulimia (or other relevant models of interest).
The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, build excellent relationships with MDT colleagues and service-users, and have experience of working with young people in services that manage complexity or risk. Eating disorder experience is valued, but someone who has a relevant experience and a passion for learning would be welcomed and supported to develop new specialist eating disorder skills.
Interested candidates are welcome to visit or contact us for further information.
Your time will be split between two bases, one in vibrant South Kensington and and one in Harrow.
The team has a strong learning culture and we are proud that our Consultant Psychiatrist has been appointed as the national lead for CYP eating disorders.
Staff wellbeing and CPD are priorities. Vincent Square is an all age service and offers excellent opportunities to benefit from cross-service learning sessions. The post-holder will also have access to CNWL Leadership programmes, and the excellent Trust Psychological Professions Workforce Development Programme, which offers diverse and high-quality CPD opportunities.
To provide a specialist therapy to clients in the CYP Eating Disorder service, across all sectors of care.
This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and to other non-professional carers.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The post-holder will be working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams’ policies and procedures.
Skills required for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and the service.
The post holder will be based at the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service as well as our Roxborough Road site in Harrow and will provide clinical and other services across the community children and young people service.
You will be expected to work flexibly across both sites (Chelsea and Harrow). Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area.
Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please click on below videos
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