Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling Psychologist, Systemic or Psychological Therapist
Band 8a
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an established role in a growing team, to work across the north of the county. It is a 12 month, fixed-term contract covering maternity leave and provides an excellent opportunity for someone to develop their interest in working with eating disorders.
The Community Adult Eating Disorder Service is a specialist team who offer assessment and treatment to adults with moderate to severe eating disorders.
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological therapy service to adults with eating disorders across both community out-patient and intensive community day treatment services.
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 such as Family Therapy, MANTRA and CBT-E for example.
This role can also be offered at Band 7 depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
- To provide specialist psychological assessments to clients of the Eating Disorder Service upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To have a good awareness of the impact of the effect of eating disorders upon the physiological functioning of patients and, together with the multi-disciplinary, team ensure that these risks are identified and appropriately managed.
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems. This involves employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings, including hospitals, local statutory and voluntary bodies, residential units and community services.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This includes adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full detailed look at the role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Recruiting Manager, Dr Rob McCarney for further information regarding this position.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate qualification, as listed in person specification
Desirable criteria
- Additional specialist training relevant to the post
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with patients with mental health problems
- Proven experience of working in a health, social care or community setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with eating disorders
- Knowledge of risks that are particularly pertinent to eating disorders
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rob McCarney
- Job title
- Head of Community Adult Eating Disorder Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07896 900888
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