South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
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Job Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing service which has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention. You will provide specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and expert clinical interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, and their families. There will also be opportunities for the post holder to contribute to ongoing service development potentially focusing on emotion dysregulation and / or less common feeding and eating disorder presentation pathways and / or working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns.
The growing specialist multi-disciplinary team is made up of psychiatrists, nurses, OTs, systemic psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a consultant paediatrician and a dietician
Suitable Applicants
Suitable applicants will have experience in a CAMHS setting and have good knowledge and skills related to NICE concordant treatments for eating disorders and common co-morbid disorders such as OCD, depression and anxiety. In addition, applications from clinical psychologists who have an interest in systemic working, and/or experience of working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns would be welcomed.
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Role Responsibilities
- To offer assessment and evidence based psychological therapies for young people with an eating disorder and their families.
- To facilitate psycho-educational parents groups and other groups.
- To work with co-morbidities, using formulation driven care-planning.
- To implement behavioural management plans.
- To offer consultation to colleagues in other services.
- Support management of ROMs and audit.
- To hold a case load and act as case manager.
- Supervision of other qualified clinical psychologists and trainees, assistant psychologists, psychology placement students and volunteers.
- Attend all multi disciplinary meetings and care planning reviews and contributes to thinking about young people and their families from a psychological perspective.
About Us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
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We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About Our Location
This post will be based at Springfield Hospital
Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Beth Watkins
- Job title: Consultant Psychology & Psychotherapy Lead
- Email address: beth.watkins@swlstg.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 02035136793
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