Job Overview
Support to Recovery in Disordered Eating Service (STRIDES) is a support service for young adults aged 16-35 with mild to moderate presentations. The team seeks motivated staff passionate about helping young adults toward recovery. The role offers opportunities to shape service development, community outreach in eating-disorder awareness, prevention and early intervention, and to work across many CNWL sites including GP practices and talking-therapy services. All staff meet once a week in a team day at the Roxborough Road, Harrow centre.
The role involves delivering specialist CBT to individuals, contributing to group programmes, and supervising junior staff where appropriate. It requires engaging with this transitional cohort and coordinating with community partners such as universities and colleges.
Vincent Square Eating Disorders Service runs outpatient, inpatient and day-patient services plus STRIDES. Staff wellbeing and CPD are priorities; links are available to Trust-wide leadership, clinical CPD and specialist therapy training.
Details & Main Responsibilities
- Provide assessments of clients referred to the team using complex data from multiple sources.
- Diagnose eating and related psychiatric problems.
- Formulate and implement treatment/management plans based on appropriate conceptual frameworks and evidence-based eating-disorder models.
- Implement interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, working across teams.
- Evaluate and decide on treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models and complex individual factors.
- Integrate medical aspects of eating disorders into psychological formulation.
- Coordinate with other clinicians to ensure physical safety and appropriate physical checks.
- Understand the role of relevant physical treatments such as nutrition and pharmacology.
- Exercise professional responsibility for assessment, treatment and discharge under standard care plans.
- Provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
- Contribute to a psychologically based framework of care across all settings.
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
- Communicate sensitively about assessment, formulation and treatment plans and monitor progress through multidisciplinary care.
- Act as care coordinator where appropriate, initiating planning and review under CPA.
- Triage new referrals based on clinical risk for the designated boroughs.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of psychological assessment and evidence-based treatment across a range of care settings.
- Experience of interdisciplinary working within the NHS.
- High level knowledge of cognitive-behavioural therapy theory and practice.
- Knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for treating eating disorders.
- Well-developed communication skills.
- Experience in mental health risk assessment and management.
Desirable criteria
- Supervised experience delivering evidence-based therapies for eating disorders and comorbid conditions.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience applying CBT in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of other specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
- Publication and presentation of clinical research.
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Upper second class honours degree or higher in a mental-health relevant subject and higher level postgraduate training in an applied clinical field including psychopathology and distinct psychological therapies.
- CBT therapist – fully or provisionally accredited with the BABCP or completed a BABCP accredited high intensity CBT course or diploma programme; OR clinical/counselling psychologist registered with the HCPC.
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training in CBT for eating disorders.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High level knowledge of CBT theory and practice.
- Knowledge of the theoretical and evidence base for understanding and treating eating disorders.
- Skilled in complex psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed communication skills, oral and written, with complex clinical information.
- Ability to provide consultation to professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of research methodology and analysis as practiced in mental health.
- Experience in mental health risk assessment and management.
Desirable criteria
- High level knowledge of other specialised psychological therapies.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation.
- Publication and presentation of clinical research.
Attitudes, Aptitudes, Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Maintain high professionalism in the face of emotive or distressing problems, verbal or physical abuse.
Other
Essential criteria
- Identify and employ clinical governance mechanisms to support practice.
- Teach and train others using multi-media materials for public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable criteria
- Personal experience of mental health problems.
- Experience of working in a multicultural framework.
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