Clinical Psychologist

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist with experience in working with eating disorders to join Elysium Healthcare and be part of a new role and psychological treatment pathway in their adult residential eating disorders service, Stockwood House, in Luton. You will be responsible for individual and group interventions, assessments, multi-disciplinary team working, and delivering training to support the care and recovery of service users.

As a Clinical Psychologist at Stockwood House, you will be responsible for participating in the assessment of referrals, providing high-quality direct and indirect psychological interventions, working therapeutically with service users with complex eating disorders and co-related mental health presentations, formulating and implementing treatment plans, and maintaining high standards of care in accordance with professional guidelines and company policies.

Elysium Healthcare is a leading provider of mental health, neurological, learning disabilities, and autism services in England and Wales. With over 8,000 employees and a global network through parent company Ramsay Health Care, Elysium offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

Are you a Clinical Psychologist with experience of working with eating disorders? If so, there is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new role and psychological treatment pathway / provision, in adult residential eating disorders. Join Stockwood House, in Luton: a residential rehabilitative service for adults with eating disorders. This is an opportunity to change lives for the better and help some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Reporting directly to the Service Director, , you will be responsible for individual and group interventions, diagnostic and cognitive assessments, MDT working and risk assessments. You will also facilitate staff reflective practice sessions and be requested to design and deliver training.

As a Clinical Psychologist, you will have experience and knowledge in carrying a service user’s caseload, including assessing complex needs and designing and delivering specialist psychological treatments to support their care plans.

Your Clinical Psychologist career at Stockwood House will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills throughout your time with us. Your professional growth is valued and there are numerous career development opportunities on offer. There is an extensive range of courses designed to help you grow and succeed in your career.

It's a career that brings pride and fulfilment, a true representation of what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As a Psychologist you will be:

• Participating in the assessment of referrals, and to provide initial assessment service users referred to the rehabilitative service.
• Undertaking high quality direct (assessment & therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory, and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions and making autonomous clinical decisions.
• Working therapeutically with service users with complex eating disorder and other co-related mental health presentations, undertake the assessments using a broad range of structured psychometric and semi structured clinical methods.
• Formulating and implementing plans of specialist psychological treatment or management of patients’ mental health needs based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current evidence based best practise.
• Being professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical work and care.
• Maintaining high standards of care in all areas of practice and in accordance the HCPC Code of Conduct,professional guidelines and Company Policies and Procedures.

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Have BPS recognised psychology degrees
• Be HCPC registered
• Have Chartered Psychologist status and appropriate post-graduate qualifications
• Be an approved supervisor within the guidelines of the BPS and relevant division
• Have understanding of evidence-based psychological practice
• Have experience of applying psychological knowledge to aclinical placement…