Interview will be held on 27th Jan 2025
Are you looking for a new rewarding position working alongside a fantastically supportive team who consistently rate their job satisfaction highly?
We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling psychologist to join our very well-established Children’s Eating Disorders Service on a fixed term (16 months) basis to provide maternity cover. We are hoping to recruit a full time applicant, although part time will be considered. Working with Eating Disorders is varied and challenging and this is a great opportunity to acquire excellent specialist experience in a friendly and supportive team.
As a Psychologist you will play an important roleproviding specialist psychological assessments, care planning and a range of evidence-based psychological interventions. You will work one to one with our patients as well as delivering group treatments.
This will be a varied role working as part of amultidisciplinary team and with professionals across agencies.
The working pattern for this role is Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 17:00pm. You will primarily be based at either Nicholsons House in Maidenheador in our NHS site at the University of Reading campus. Both sites offer free (or paid but reclaimable) parking to staff. There is flexibility for some home working.
• Assessing children and their families referred to Berkshire Eating Disorders Service.
• Creating care plans for patients referred to the service.
• Delivering a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.
• Undertaking and reviewing risk assessments.
• Providing specialist advice to and liaising with other professionals.
• Maintaining up to date and accurate clinical records.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
• Compassiontowards people struggling with eating disorders and mental health difficulties, and a heartfelt desire to help others;
• Resiliencewhich enables you to work in a fast-paced and at times demanding NHS environment.
• Commitmentto your colleagues and the ability to support each other, “muck in” and pull together as a team.
• Creativityand innovation as you will be a part of a team which prides itself on adapting quickly and innovatively to change and challenges.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Emma Regan via email: emma.regan@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible
This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jan 2025
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