Senior Clinical Psychologist (preceptorship opportunity) - CFHD

Job summary

We are delighted to be recruiting a Senior Clinical Psychologist with preceptorship opportunity (Band 7-8a) to join the Eating Disorder Pathway within Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD).

This role is offered as a full time opportunity throughout the preceptorship at Band 7, decreasing to 30 hours (0.8 WTE), at Band 8a on completion.

The post is based in South Devon & Torbay.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of high-quality psychological care for children and young people experiencing difficulties with restrictive eating disorders.

The Eating Disorder pathway is part of our wider integrated model of care in CFHD, supporting young people with difficulties such as low mood, anxiety, emotional dysregulation and relational challenges. You will be part of a supportive, multi-disciplinary team, working closely with colleagues across health, education and social care to deliver formulation-driven, trauma-informed interventions.

This is an ideal role for Clinical Psychologists looking to develop or take on senior responsibilities with a blend of therapeutic work, clinical leadership and service development, in a beautiful part of the country.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Psychologist in the eating disorder pathway, you will be offering high-quality complex assessments and psychological input to children, young people and families. You will bring advanced formulation and consultation skills alongside wider service development contributions. While eating disorders are a specialist area, you will be working with various comorbidities such as anxiety, OCD, BDD and trauma. We offer cognitive assessments as well as opportunities to develop systemic practice. This makes it a great opportunity to gain specialist knowledge whilst maintaining variety.

There will be CPD opportunities to support you. For example, colleagues have accessed training in ARFID, AFT, TF-CBT and other models.

We are keen to support CBT for eating disorders as an offer within the pathway and would welcome applications from those already trained, or who wish to undertake further training such as CBT-E and CBT-T.

We encourage interest from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, both personal and professional.

You will have regular clinical supervision and separate line management. You will be supported with a job plan and opportunities to develop supervision, leadership, research and service development skills. There is a strong and friendly network of Clinical Psychologists working across CFHD, enjoying shared CPD and professional support. We also have excellent links with local Doctoral courses for teaching and Trainee placements.

About us

At Children and Family Health Devon, we are dedicated to improving the physical and mental health of children and young people across Devon and Torbay. We aim to create an environment where children and young people can thrive and are committed to reducing health inequalities and providing specialised support, empowering them to lead healthy, fulfilling lives.

Our children and young people say

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Who we are

We are an alliance of NHS organisations led by Devon Partnership Trust. We are a group of professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, nurses and many other professions.

Join us in beautiful Devon

With access to moors, sea and cities, there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy Devon. Whether you enjoy spending time in the cultural hub of Exeter, exploring the Jurassic coastline or discovering the world surfing reserve in North Devon there really is something for everyone.

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specificationand ensure you evidence essential criteria in your application.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent e.g. Masters level qualification in Clinical Psychology if qualified before 1996.
• Active registration as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

Desirable

• Post qualification specialist therapy/assessment training relevant to children and young people
• Post qualification training or proven equivalent experience in supervision.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies
• Experience of working with a range of children and young people with complex needs maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal abuse
• Experience of undertaking specialist psychological assessments and providing evidence based interventions, with the ability to work with complex needs and undertake risk assessments.
• Experience in providing teaching and training
• Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
• Experience that evidences an ability to attend to diversity and work in a way that promotes anti-discriminatory practice.
• Experience of managing and processing emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required

Desirable

• Experience in using neuropsychological assessments of cognitive functioning and/or learning disabilities in the context of diagnostic assessments of learning disabilities
• Experience of the assessment of capacity to consent and providing consultation to capacity assessments across a range of issues.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Understanding of relevant legislation pertaining to children.
• High level knowledge of Clinical presentations in children and young people
• Ability to travel and work in a variety of locations, e.g. clinic base, schools, home visits.