Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist or Systemic Family Therapist

Job Description

About the team:The CYP-Community Eating Disorders Service is a multidisciplinary team providing a community out-patient service to the five boroughs served by SWLSTG. The service has close links with the in-patient specialist eating disorders unit (Wisteria Ward) on site, the Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT) on site, outpatient consultant paediatric care provided on site as part of the MDT, and brief inpatient paediatric care at nearby St George’s Hospital. We are an expanding, highly specialist team, combining expertise in CYP eating disorders with specialist mental health provision for young people. This is an exciting time to join the service as New Models of Care for CAMHS in the South London Partnership provides exciting opportunities to be involved in innovations in care for children and young people across the partnership.About the role:This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, developing service which has a systemic underpinning, offering NICE concordant systemic therapy for eating disorders as its core intervention. You will provide specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and expert clinical interventions to children and adolescents with eating disorders, and their families. There will also be opportunities for the post holder to contribute to ongoing service development potentially focusing on emotion dysregulation and / or less common feeding and eating disorder presentation pathways and / or working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns.The growing specialist multi-disciplinary team is made up of psychiatrists, nurses, systemic psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, a consultant paediatrician and a dietician. The service also hosts students from nursing, undergraduate psychology courses, trainee clinical psychologists, and medical trainees, fostering a welcoming culture with a focus on learning and development within the service. Team working is held at the core of the service with a range of processes to ensure individual clinicians feel supported in their work, including weekly team meetings and case discussion, fortnightly systemic case consultation, and the opportunity for joint working with more complex cases. This support is all in addition to 1:1 supervision with a Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Principal Systemic Family Therapist.The service works closely with local Tier 4 services to ensure well-supported transitions to and from intensive day programmes or specialist eating disorder units. In addition the service has good links with the local CAMHS teams across the five boroughs of South West London, enabling effective and joined-up working where necessary.The team operate mainly core hours 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and the work is mostly conducted out of the community clinic with occasional exceptions e.g. observations and supported meals at home; visits to paediatric or tier 4 services. Due to the current pandemic, the team are currently managing a combination of remote working (using video calls and telephone contacts) alongside some face to face working. Despite remote working you will be welcomed into the team as the service uses Microsoft Teams to continue with all meetings, systemic consultation, CPD, and supervision.Suitable applicants will have experience in a CAMHS setting and have good knowledge and skills related to NICE concordant treatments for eating disorders and common co-morbid disorders such as OCD, depression and anxiety. In addition, applications from clinical psychologists who have an interest in systemic working, and/or experience of working with children and families with complex needs or with safeguarding concerns would be welcomed.About the location:Our Trust headquarters is located within the impressive grounds of Springfield University Hospital in Tooting and we also operate in nearly 100 other locations throughout the UK. This is easily accessible via the Northern Line (Tooting Bec Station) and via private transport. The Trust provides subsidised parking fares for all our substantive staff. Our main site is located immediately next to Tooting High Street where staff can easily access a range of shops, cafés, restaurants etc.Benefits:We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and working from home.

Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes

Subsidised car parking - You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.

NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Eye examinations

Looking after your health

Cycle to work scheme

Car lease scheme

Season ticket loan

Childcare vouchers

Staff restaurants

Free gym membership

We look forward to receiving your application.For further information please contact Dr Beth Watkins, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Professional Consultant L