Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic CBT therapists /Psychologists/Psychotherapist to provide therapy for clients within the Kent and Medway All Age Eating Disorder Service .
The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner ( clinical psychologist, family therapist, CBT therapist) or graduate qualified health care professional ( nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body ( HCPC, NMC) and with an additional post-graduate qualification in Psychological Therapies ( cyp-iapt post graduate diploma in systemic family practice/cognitive behavioural therapy).
The post holder will be a member of the Kent and Medway all age eating disorder service.
The post holder will be required to assess and treat all age patients who present with an eating disorder. The post holder will have support of other team members in the management of these cases. As the service is exclusively an outpatient service, the post holder will not hold an inpatient case load, but the post holder will work with adolescent units where young people are admitted from the geographical areas in order to maintain joint working and smooth transition into and out of inpatient beds.
Main duties of the job
To provide evidence-based interventions including family and individual cognitive behavioural interventions to service users and their families seen within the Kent and Medway eating disorders team using specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions and to manage complex cases.
·To take an active role in developing the research activities of the team and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of mental disorders.
·To provide specialist assessments and evidence-based interventions for service users with an eating disorder.
·To provide consultation and advice to members of own team and other teams on psychological issues, primarily Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural models of understanding eating disorders in young people.
·To provide consultation and advice on risk assessment and risk management of service users with an eating disorder to members of own team and other teams.
·To provide supervision to staff on Family therapy based or cognitive-behavioural interventions as appropriate with service users with an eating disorder.
·To undertake research into eating disorders.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
We encourage personal and professional development within the team and support ongoing BABCP accreditation by providing the necessary CPD required for this. Additionally, clinicians are provided with the opportunity to undertake different responsibilities alongside clinical work, deliver training and/or consultation to the team and other services, or attend training where this may be required, such as, Trauma focussed CBT for complex traumas, Complex Grief, Supervisor training; thus, further strengthening their repertoire of skills. We also offer monthly in-house training, high intensity peer supervision and external training in other IAPT modalities when the opportunity arises.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Professional postgraduate training in Clinical/Counselling Psychology, Doctoral level or equivalent (2) HCPC registration for psychologists (or working towards) (2) CBT Therapist qualification (2) BABCP accreditation for CBT therapists, or working towards accreditation (2)
Desirable criteria
2. Additional advanced training in CBT, EMDR, IPT or other IAPT specific discipline
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Experience of working all age patients and their families with eating disorders
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
4. An awareness of NHS priorities
5. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for eating disorders
6. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by professional body
7. Awareness of racial and diversity issues through attendance of relevant training
8. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues and child protection
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
9. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
10. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
11. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
12. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.