37.5 Hours per Week
Calderdale and Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has an exciting opportunity to recruit to the Eating Disorder team.
The successful candidate will be a part of the pathway and will support the team in developing and driving this intervention within the Eating Disorders service. This will include supporting service development based on best practice guidelines and existing research and evidence.
You will deliver high quality interventions following care planning, treatment and regular reviews (CPA) from the qualified practitioners in your team for children and young people who meet the criteria of the pathway.
By identifying children and young people earlier and providing the right support, we can work with families to provide a dedicated treatment plan to be able to, prevent escalation and reduce long term difficulties and decrease the pressures in the ED and acute services.
We are looking for someone highly motivated and enthusiastic who has an interest and understanding of Eating Disorders. The service welcome professionals to join our existing multi disciplinary team. If you are unsure if you would be able to apply please contact to discuss further.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
1. Be passionate about improving the delivery of evidence-based treatments for children, young people and their families.
2. Be a driven, enthusiastic and forward thinking.
3. Have knowledge of Eating Disorders and ARFID.
4. Have experience of working in a CAMHS setting.
5. Have excellent assessment, risk assessment, care planning and reviewing skills.
6. Be able to work and participate within an MDT.
7. Manage a caseload of young people with Eating Disorder and ARFID presentation/ diagnoses.
8. Attend at a variety of meetings to discuss complex cases as well as liaison with other services.
9. Be able to consult with others to give advice and guidance regarding a Systemic approach.
10. The post also involves attendance at a variety of meetings with our external partners/agencies to ensure effective pathways of care.
11. Delivery of group interventions where appropriate.
12. To personally maintain accurate records.
13. Developing and maintaining supportive professional networks across the trust.
14. To liaise with and actively promote excellent working relationships and support the Senior Mental Health Practitioner with communication & working practices with referring teams and partner agencies. This would include the provision of expert advice to multi-agency partners.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
The post holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.
Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration.
* Show respect and treat people with dignity.
* Be able to give bad news sensitively.
* Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations.
* Be aware of all interviewees in any situation.
Desirable
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of groupwork.
TRAINING
Essential
* Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
Essential
* Good Psychometric Assessment skills.
* Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees.
* Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes.
* Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance.
* Ability to Formulate Complex processes.
* Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment.
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* Keyboard skills.
* Manual Dexterity for conducting tests.
Desirable
* Working with people in Crisis.
* Working on an in-patient Psychiatric ward.
Qualifications
Essential
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
* Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post.
* HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
* Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Essential
* A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
* To transport Psychometric testing equipment.
Employer details
Employer name
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Folly Hall Mills
St Thomas Road
Huddersfield
HD1 3LT
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