Senior Psychological Practitioner - Developmental Post, Canterbury
Client: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Canterbury
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: ba0ff05a29ba
Job Views: 2
Posted: 13.04.2025
Expiry Date: 28.05.2025
Job Description:
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.
Job overview
The post-holder will be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (clinical/counselling psychologist, family therapist, psychotherapist) fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (HCPC, BABCP, UKCP, AFT, ACP).
The post holder will join an established multidisciplinary team in the pathway including clinical psychologists, consultant psychiatrists, CBT therapists, nurses, dietitians, occupational therapists and clinical support workers. The post-holder will be required to assess and treat all age patients who present with an eating disorder, mainly ARFID, and their families. There will be opportunities for the post-holder to contribute to ongoing service development for ARFID, helping to develop robust assessment and treatment pathways.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide clinical supervision to more junior psychological therapists and to MDT colleagues delivering evidence-based psychological interventions.
2. Play a role in developing the skills of the team in relation to these interventions, and to service improvements more generally.
3. Participate in supervision and CPD focused on evidence-based interventions in eating disorders.
4. Provide highly specialist psychological assessments to service-users referred to the eating disorder team.
5. Undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients.
6. Formulate evidence-based treatment plans based on sound and current theoretical knowledge and good practice.
7. Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about a range of treatment options.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice or graduate training plus an additional post-graduate qualification in Psychological Therapies.
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
Experience
* Extensive experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people.
* Experience of working with children and adolescents with eating disorders and co-morbid difficulties.
* Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals.
Knowledge
* An awareness of NHS priorities and knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical interventions in EWMHS eating disorders.
Skills
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively complex matters to patients.
* Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.
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.
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