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This full-time position offers an opportunity for experienced and compassionate psychologists, whether currently at Band 8a or seeking progression from Band 8b, to make a significant impact on the lives of young people. Responsibilities include conducting highly specialized assessments, formulating treatment plans, providing guidance to other professionals, and engaging in multi-disciplinary care. Successful candidates will receive training in relevant psychological models, allowing them to contribute to both clinical practice and system improvements across the South West.
We are excited to offer a new opportunity for an experienced and compassionate clinical psychologist to take a leadership role within our Children's Eating Disorder Service (CEDS), part of Somerset CAMHS, rated "Outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). This is an ideal time to join us as we evolve our approach to supporting children with eating difficulties, offering the chance to contribute to both clinical practice and broader system change across the South West.
Whether you're an existing 8b looking for a change, an 8a looking to progress, or currently working in a different specialty with transferrable skills, we encourage you to apply. Full training in relevant psychological models will be provided to support your development.
In this role, you will provide clinical leadership to both psychologists and the wider multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that young people and their families receive the highest quality, psychologically informed care. Our strong links with wider CAMHS and partner agencies across the South West, mean you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively and make a real difference.
This is a full-time position with working hours of Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. If you're passionate about making an impact and are ready for a new challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
In this role, you will provide direct clinical psychology services to children and young people facing complex disordered eating and related challenges, offering evidence-based interventions for individuals, families, and wider systems.
You will also provide supervision to junior psychologists and other clinical team members. Your expertise will help shape the quality of psychological assessment and therapy within the team, ensuring high standards of care.
Collaboration will be central to your role. You will work closely with other professionals and agencies to support and enhance psychological perspectives on the care of young people and their families. You will oversee clinical pathways, ensuring the integration of best practice and the ongoing development of our services.
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of young people, while further developing your skills in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
About us
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, personality and risk assessment, 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 formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health and eating issues challenges, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To provide highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a specialist psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of specialist psychological research and theory.
- To undertake risk assessment and guide risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
- To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
- To provide a consultancy service to the Children's Social Care, acute paediatric wards, in-patient teams, local community mental health teams, and other agencies and teams, with regard to appropriate referral and treatment options.
- To liaise with appropriate professionals, and to contribute to multi-disciplinary case discussions/planning meetings.
- To be responsible for own work and interventions with highly complex presentations as an autonomous practitioner, and to seek consultation appropriately from supervisor and colleagues.
- To provide a direct specialist service for service users presenting with eating disorders and/or eating issues, and their families.
- To write reports summarising complex information to guide clinical care.
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