CBT Therapist or Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 11 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9333-25-0871 |
Summary
The role covers assessment, care planning, intervention (with individuals and groups) and building strong relationships with partners in the community. To provide assessments of clients referred to the team, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources To diagnose patients eating and related psychiatric problems To formulate and implement plans for treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence based models for eating disorders To be responsible for implementing interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis 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. To integrate (with the psychological formulation) an understanding of the medical aspects of the eating disorders and associated medical conditions To liaise with other clinicians involved in the patients care, in order that appropriate physical checks and interventions are carried out to ensure the patients physical safety To understand the role of relevant physical treatments (e.g. nutrition, pharmacology) To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans To provide psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans 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 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 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 To act as care coordinator where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA (to include clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care) To process new referrals, by triaging them based on clinical risk, for the designated boroughs