Psychotherapist/Psychologist/Family Therapist - Eating Disorders
NHS AFC: Band 7
Main area: Family Therapist/ Clinical Psychologist /Psychological Therapist in Eating Disorders (CAMHS)
Grade: NHS AFC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
Job ref: 395-PP028-25
Site: Widford Hall, Town: Chelmsford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/03/2025 23:59
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, providing community and mental healthcare services to adults and children.
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
We are looking for a Senior Therapist, such as a Systemic Family Therapist or Clinical Psychologist, to join the well-established SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service in North East London NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a great opportunity to join our highly skilled, dedicated, and friendly team. NELFT has been successful in commissioning to offer an intensive support pathway as a preventative and alternative to admission, which entails home treatment and a day programme to support CYP to stay home.
We appreciate that eating disorders can be a rewarding and challenging field to work in, even for those with experience. Therefore, we provide excellent supervision, reflective practice sessions, and opportunities to develop skills through joint working, access to internal training, CPD, and external training courses.
Main Duties of the Job
We seek an individual who has an interest in working in eating disorders and is passionate about delivering good quality, patient-led care to young people and families. The successful applicant will ideally have experience in working with children and young people with eating disorders and their families.
We will support candidates to develop skills in delivering evidence-based treatment. Families are at the heart of our work, and the intensive pathway will align with the current evidence-based treatment approach, namely the Maudsley family-based treatment/FT-AN and CBT-E.
Working for Our Organisation
We encourage all staff to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received their booster, as this provides the best defence against COVID-19 for our patients, staff, and their families.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
The successful applicant will hold a caseload and work within a multi-disciplinary team alongside the existing CAMHS team to meet the young person’s physical and psychological needs. This innovative approach will help us provide the best quality care to families affected by eating disorders during some of the most challenging points in their recovery.
The role will involve a mixture of remote and face-to-face working, responding to the demands of the service.
As a member of the CAMHS ED team, you will have access to specialist supervision in both family-based treatment and CBT-E, offered by a senior member of the team from the same discipline where possible. There will be access to regular individual and group supervision, including safeguarding supervision.
Person Specification
* 2 years of experience
* Registered
IT and Experience
* 1 year of experience in Eating Disorders
* Experience with Children and Young People (CYP)
We believe in bringing your authentic self to work 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:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities, and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues in achieving a work-life balance through flexible working opportunities.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme and individual wellbeing conversations.
Equal Opportunities Employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
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