Psychologist or Psychotherapist - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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It's an exciting time to work within adult eating disorders as there is significant development and transformation.

If you are an excellent psychologist or psychotherapist, preferably with a knowledge of working well with people with eating disorders and if not, with strong transferable skills, we would love you to join us.

The post holder in this role will conduct assessments and provide therapeutic interventions, in line with NICE guidance and excellent clinical practice, to adults with a moderate to severe eating disorder and their families, who live in Hertfordshire.

You will be part of an excellent multi-disciplinary team and will be expected to work holistically with your service users, taking a care coordination function as required.

Assessments

Individual Psychotherapy

Group Psychotherapy

Risk management

MDT liaison and reflection

Supervision of junior staff

Care coordination

Service development

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match.

We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.

We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on

You will conduct initial assessments to ensure the person is coming to the correct team.

You are likely to co-facilitate psychotherapy groups, using MANTRA or CBT approaches.

You will provide individual psychotherapy, particularly using CBT but also MANTRA or SSCM or Focal Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

You will supervise junior staff and contribute to multi-disciplinary team thinking.

You will also contribute to outcome measuring and service development together with the rest of the team.

You will be working alongside psychiatrists, dietitians, support workers, nurses, other psychologists/psychotherapists, administrators and managers and will have myriad opportunities to learn and to develop.

Please feel free to contact us to find out more about the role before you apply