Total 4 job vacancies by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust

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


Welcome to CNWL Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People. Eating Disorders is a specialism within children’s mental health, therefore finding candidates with rich experience is really important. It would be fantastic to have staff ‘ready-to-go', but we appreciate the need to grow and develop people in this field and improve young people’s access to care.

In this role you will provide senior nurse leadership and line management and supervision to allocated members of the CYP nursing team. You will also contribute to the wider nursing initiatives within the All-Age Eating Disorders Service and the wider CAMHS Eating Disorders Service line, as appropriate.

What do we do?

The recommended evidence-based intervention indicated for this patient group is Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders which all clinicians in the team are trained to deliver. We offer systemic therapy, for those who an individual therapy approach is more appropriate. In addition, we also offer a parent group to support those caring for a young person with an eating disorder. We link with CNWL CAMHS for joint work (for co-morbidities) and other agencies as necessary.

Who are we?

The team consists of nursing, psychology, assistant psychologists, systemic psychotherapists, a dietician, paediatrician and psychiatry. We are expanding into the use of systemic practitioners, Occupational Therapy, and developing nurses to the Advanced Clinical Practitioner level. The leads of the service are a Clinical Team Lead, Consultant Psychiatrist, and is linked to the ED service which is overseen by Head of ED and a Clinical Director for ED. More recent developments are better links with the Adult Service, development of an Intensive Community Team and new projects with our neighbours at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.



Where are we?

Our main base is in Chelsea (next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital). Thanks to the heavy NHS influence many local cafes, restaurants and bars give discounts ranging from 10-20% to all NHS staff.

Our second site is newly opened and based at Roxborough Road which has the tube station of Harrow-on-the-Hill very close by, and clinicians typically work there once or twice per week with the option for this to be frequent if preferable to the staff member.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team and helping you to grow. If you have any questions about us and the role please get in touch.

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

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JOB PURPOSE
• The post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families affected by eating disorders, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To be responsible for the continued development of the treatment pathway from the point of referral through to discharge.
• Provide liaison to GPs, Paediatricians, CAMHS Teams and other stakeholders, ensuring ease of access and support for children and young people with an eating disorder.
• To work closely with the Adult Eating Disorder Service to ensure a seamless transition into Adult Services from Child and Adolescent Services when required.
• To provide effective nurse leadership, expertise, advice and support to the team and ensure the provision of high-quality care to children and families.
• To act as a role model and highly competent practitioner
• To supervise other nurses within the service and contribute to the wider nursing initiatives within the All Age Service and the wider CAMHS/Eating Disorders Service line, as appropriate.
• To act as a designated resource to children and families, and other professionals caring for them.
• To facilitate the continued development of the Community Eating Disorder Service, as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence-based practice.
• To provide clinical interventions relevant to the CAMHS patient group such as: FBT, supportive clinical management, DBT skills, CBT-E skills and other evidenced based models of care
• To work with families as appropriate
• To provide consultation and advice to referrers; children & young people and their families.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of systemic practice within the service.
• To take an active role, as and when necessary, in the development of specialist provision of specific projects and services in collaboration with other members of the MDT and in response to service need.
• To take responsibility for contributing to research, audit, policy and service development in line with clinical governance.


This advert closes on Thursday 5 Sep 2024

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Assistant Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CNWL eating disorders service. We are offering a 1-year fixed-term Senior Assistant Psychologist post within the Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service (adult team).

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary eating disorders team; as a Senior Assistant Psychologist, you will be directly involved in the delivery and evaluation of the eating disorder treatment pathways. This will involve psychological assessments, direct 1:1 work, the opportunity to co-facilitate evidence-based groups, and gathering feedback from the people we support and their carers.

We are seeking candidates who can work confidently under supervision, can follow direction, have the ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, and are adaptable and responsive to the needs of the service. Your role will play an important part in supporting an increase in and access to evidence based psychological therapies and psychologically informed interventions.

This position involves supporting and enhancing the professional psychological care of clients within the service across all sectors or care; conducting audits; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, drawing upon their supervisor’s expertise and intervention as and when advised and directed; and assisting in clinically related administration, developing research projects, providing teaching, and other project work as required.

The post holder will be based across our Harrow and Chelsea sites. There is be an expectation to cover some outpatient work remotely at times. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and treatment to adults (17+) with eating disorders.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The Senior Assistant Psychologist will support and enhance the professional psychological care of clients within the service, across all sectors of care; providing psychological assessment and psychological interventions of a routine nature, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist drawing on their supervisor’s expertise and intervention as and when advised and directed.

Working according to a plan agreed with a qualified psychologist and within the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures. To assist in clinically related administration, conduct of audits, collection of statistics, development of audit and/or research projects, teaching and project work.

1. To undertake, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of clients applying psychological, including 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 assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in both community and in-patient/residential settings.

3. To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the coordination and running of protocol-driven treatments such as guided self-help.

4. To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.

5. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.


This advert closes on Friday 5 Jul 2024

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Would you like to be part of shaping a brand new team?

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the expansion of the Support to Recovery in Disorder Eating (STRIDES) team - a new talking therapy service for young adults (aged 18-25) with mild to moderate eating disorders.

The ideal candidate has a passion for supporting young adults who are struggling with their eating, is compassionate, enthusiastic, quick to learn, and works very well as part of a team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about working with young adults, and helping to relieve the burden of eating disorders among this group. We are a friendly, growing and innovative team where your ideas will be welcomed as we shape our new service.

You will get the chance to be part CNWLs excellent Trust-wide CPD for psychologists, attend in-house CPD within Eating Disorder services, develop your supervisory skills, and be part of a large-scale service development from which you will gain experience to develop yourself as a future leader.

You will have a role in the triage and assessment of new referrals to the team. You will be trained to deliver short-term psychological interventions under supervision, and will be part of a supportive team of psychological therapists delivering individual and group therapies. You will help evaluate our service and work on projects to continually improve what we offer.

In the service development phase the postholder will work closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Project Delivery Group to develop and deliver a high-quality service, which will be designed to meet the needs of young adults, including early identification, and rapid access to help.

As the service becomes established you will deliver evidence-based eating disorder therapies to individuals and groups, supervise junior staff, and work to build strong community partnerships to promote awareness and proactive management of eating difficulties.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is hoping to pursue a career in clinical psychology. You will be part of a friendly and growing team of nurses and psychological therapists who are all passionate about creating a high-quality service to support young adults.

Our team covers five boroughs so you can expect to your role to include travel, and working with diverse populations in different parts of London.

There are regular CPD events and you will work closely with psychologist colleagues in preparation for a career in psychology.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
1. To undertake, under the direct supervision of a qualified psychologist, protocol based psychological assessments of clients. To apply psychological 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 assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the formulation and delivery of care plans involving the psychological treatment of a client’s problems. This included the delivery of protocol-driven treatments such as guided self-help and CBT-T.
3. To assist in the co-ordination and running of therapeutic groups.
4. To assist, under the direct supervision of a qualified professional psychologist, in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
5. To attend and contribute to appropriate multi-disciplinary meetings.
6. Will be required to tolerate occasional verbal abuse and hostility.
7. Will be required to cope with periods of intense concentration (eg client interviews) and tolerate occasional distressing situations while providing therapy.


This advert closes on Friday 3 May 2024

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


Welcome to CNWL Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People. Eating Disorders is a specialism within children’s mental health, therefore finding candidates with rich experience is really important. It would be fantastic to have staff ‘ready-to-go', but we appreciate the need to grow and develop people in this field and improve young people’s access to care.

In this role you will provide senior nurse leadership and line management and supervision to allocated members of the CYP nursing team. You will also contribute to the wider nursing initiatives within the All-Age Eating Disorders Service and the wider CAMHS Eating Disorders Service line, as appropriate.

What do we do?

The recommended evidence-based intervention indicated for this patient group is Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for eating disorders which all clinicians in the team are trained to deliver. We offer systemic therapy, for those who an individual therapy approach is more appropriate. In addition, we also offer a parent group to support those caring for a young person with an eating disorder. We link with CNWL CAMHS for joint work (for co-morbidities) and other agencies as necessary.

Who are we?

The team consists of nursing, psychology, assistant psychologists, systemic psychotherapists, a dietician, paediatrician and psychiatry. We are expanding into the use of systemic practitioners, Occupational Therapy, and developing nurses to the Advanced Clinical Practitioner level. The leads of the service are a Clinical Team Lead, Consultant Psychiatrist, and is linked to the ED service which is overseen by Head of ED and a Clinical Director for ED. More recent developments are better links with the Adult Service, development of an Intensive Community Team and new projects with our neighbours at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.



Where are we?

Our main base is in Chelsea (next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital). Thanks to the heavy NHS influence many local cafes, restaurants and bars give discounts ranging from 10-20% to all NHS staff.

Our second site is newly opened and based at Roxborough Road which has the tube station of Harrow-on-the-Hill very close by, and clinicians typically work there once or twice per week with the option for this to be frequent if preferable to the staff member.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team and helping you to grow. If you have any questions about us and the role please get in touch.

JOB PURPOSE
• The post holder will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families affected by eating disorders, as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To be responsible for the continued development of the treatment pathway from the point of referral through to discharge.
• Provide liaison to GPs, Paediatricians, CAMHS Teams and other stakeholders, ensuring ease of access and support for children and young people with an eating disorder.
• To work closely with the Adult Eating Disorder Service to ensure a seamless transition into Adult Services from Child and Adolescent Services when required.
• To provide effective nurse leadership, expertise, advice and support to the team and ensure the provision of high-quality care to children and families.
• To act as a role model and highly competent practitioner
• To supervise other nurses within the service and contribute to the wider nursing initiatives within the All Age Service and the wider CAMHS/Eating Disorders Service line, as appropriate.
• To act as a designated resource to children and families, and other professionals caring for them.
• To facilitate the continued development of the Community Eating Disorder Service, as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence-based practice.
• To provide clinical interventions relevant to the CAMHS patient group such as: FBT, supportive clinical management, DBT skills, CBT-E skills and other evidenced based models of care
• To work with families as appropriate
• To provide consultation and advice to referrers; children & young people and their families.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of systemic practice within the service.
• To take an active role, as and when necessary, in the development of specialist provision of specific projects and services in collaboration with other members of the MDT and in response to service need.
• To take responsibility for contributing to research, audit, policy and service development in line with clinical governance.


This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Jan 2024

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme