Senior Clinical or Counselling Psychologist - Community Adult Eating Disorder Service
This is an exciting opportunity in a well established psychology team and wider Multi-Disciplinary Team. The Community Adult Eating Disorder Service (CAEDS) is a specialist team offering assessment and treatment to adults in Essex with moderate to severe eating disorders. This post is based at the Derwent Centre, Harlow. It will primarily cover west and south Essex, although may also involve working across mid and north Essex.
Depending on experience this post can be offered as a developmental post/ preceptorship, in which case the successful candidate would initially be appointed at band 7 and would be supported to gain the knowledge and experience required for the band 8a role.
The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy to adults with eating disorders in a community out-patient service. Where appropriate, the post holder will also take a lead in ensuring that family therapy or family interventions are available to those seen within the service.
The post holder will be required to:
Work across locality and interagency boundaries to meet the needs of a highly complex client group.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
Offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist/psychotherapist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
Use appropriate evidence based psychological therapies for example CBT-E, MANTRA and Family Therapy.
To learn more about working within our Services at EPUT, please view our recruitment videos, where members of the team share their experiences and insights into their roles and what it is like working within our Psychological Services, here at EPUT.
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Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
Benefits
27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.
Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed list of responsibilities.
