Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Clinical Psychologist (Eating Disorders)
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This role is offered on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will be able to negotiate a set working week of between 22.5 hours to 37.5 hours.
Are you an experienced & creative Clinical Psychologist, passionate about service innovation, development, and transformation? We are seeking an enthusiastic & compassionate Clinical Psychologist with experience of working in Eating Disorders services to join a new multidisciplinary team of professionals.
This is an exciting opportunity for the post holder to drive innovation throughout the Eating Disorders Service in GHC in a role that will focus on service re-design and recovery from the pandemic. The service is engaged in a full transformation programme that will allow the successful candidate to consider the implementation of psychological interventions and new treatment initiatives and the development of psychological and clinical workforce roles to ensure that the service is able to effectively and safely treat the patient group who access it.
You will demonstrate strong leadership skills, have extensive experience of multiagency working & a proven track record of delivering high-quality psychological interventions. Experience of working within a physical health/paediatric context would also be helpful in terms of confidently managing the demands that flow through this developing clinical service.
You will take a lead role in ensuring this forward-thinking service is psychologically informed, demonstrating competence in consultation, training, supervision & committed to promoting psychological thinking with the team.
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Responsibilities
- To be responsible for promoting the psychological health and well-being of clients in the Eating Disorders team within the Trust.
- To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the team, across all sectors of care.
- To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise delegated responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the team.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy, and service development and research.
- To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team.
- To contribute toward service re-design and recovery.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About Us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
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Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys, and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Contact Us
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: James Lewis-Wtkins
- Job title: Eating Disorders Ops Lead
- Email address: james.lewis-watkins@ghc.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07967833484
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