Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist in Eating Disorders

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A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL eating disorders service. We are offering a permanent full time Senior Psychologist post within the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service.

 

This position involves providing specialist therapies to clients across all sectors of care, although the majority of the work will be working with the inpatient staff and patients. 

This includes the provision of highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, whilst also offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to colleagues and to other non-professional carers.  The post holder will be responsible for line management and clinical supervision to attached supervisees while  working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams' policies and procedures.  In addition, the post will require skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team and service. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and treatment to adults with eating disorders.

 

The post holder will be based at the Paddington Clinic (Health @ The Stowe) and will provide clinical and other services across the inpatient, day patient and outpatient programmes. Depending on service need, you may be expected to work flexibly across sites (Chelsea, Paddington and Harrow-on-the-Hill). Service provision within this scope may at times involve travelling to different sites within the catchment area. 

Hear from our staff what it’s like working with our CNWL Eating Disorders service, please click on below  videos”

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Clinical:   

1. To provide specialist assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources (including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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).

2. To diagnose patients’ eating and related psychiatric problems.

3. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems. To employ methods based upon evidence of efficacy across inpatient, day patient and outpatient settings.

4. To be responsible for implementing psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This occurs within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

5. 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.

6. To integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions

7. To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patient’s care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patient’s physical safety.

8. To understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology).

9. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

10. To provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

12. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

13. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients, and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

14. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.

15. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.

16. To lead on psychological thinking and psychological treatment provision in our inpatient ward and day programme.

This advert closes on Monday 19 Oct 2026