Job Overview
8c Consultant Psychologist - Adult Eating Disorders
About
We are looking for a highly skilled consultant psychologist to lead our relatively new and innovative online service for patients with anorexia nervosa. Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Programme, is an online treatment for patients living in the east midlands region, offering the option of staying at home, whilst receiving intensive support akin to inpatient care. Here's more about what we do and who we are:
What do we do? Deliver an online group treatment programme, with the aim of attendees restoring weight and working towards recovery from their eating disorder, Monday to Friday, 8.30am till 4.30pm. We facilitate educational and therapeutic groups and provide meal supervisions. There is one evening meal each week, which we are hoping to increase the regularity of as our staffing increases.
Although the majority of the treatment is delivered online, there is also some face-to-face work on an individual basis and community support for activities such as home cooking, visits to cafes or for shopping.
Who's the team? We are a team of enthusiastic and skilled clinicians Occupational Therapists, Registered Mental Nurses, Assistant Psychologists, Therapy Support Workers and peer support workers. We are passionate about providing a much-needed alternative option of treatment, other than inpatient admission or long-term outpatient therapy.
Based where?: We predominantly work from home. Our base in Leicester is at the Glenfield Hospital, where there is opportunity to working together or see patients in person.
What does the psychologist role include? We are looking for someone with substantial eating disorders experience, who can clinically and operationally lead the team in all aspects of care delivery. The Waterlily workforce will be spread across the 5 regional community eating disorder services and the post holder will require excellent people leadership and liaison skills to support collaborative working, facilitating cohesive and effective teamworking.
The post holder will be closely involved and take responsibility for all aspects of clinical care and decision making and will be competent at managing a wide range of presentations, co-morbidities and risks within the patient group.
Contact details for further information: Sandra Marshall - [email protected] Tel: 07557481240
Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)
- Lead the Waterlily Inpatient Prevention Team clinically and operationally.
- Provide effective professional supervision to the multi-disciplinary team.
- Contribute expert knowledge to complex clinical presentations and plans of care.
- Provide effective liaison between partnering Trusts.
- Provide reports, audit outcomes and data to Trust, commissioning and monitoring authorities.
- Continue to develop and improve service and its outcomes.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
