Lead Clinical Psychologist (Eating Disorders)

Overview

In this role you will advance psychological care within the Gloucestershire Eating Disorders Service. You will lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, delivering expert psychological assessment, intervention and service development to improve patient outcomes. You will drive transformation and workforce capability while nurturing a compassionate, collaborative culture. A key focus is empowering colleagues and embedding psychological thinking across pathways, with opportunities to implement innovative interventions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Promote psychological health and wellbeing of patients in the Eating Disorders Service
• Ensure high-quality, specialist clinical psychology provision across the service pathway
• Provide leadership, supervision and support to psychologists and other MDT members
• Foster professional development through consultation, training, reflective practice and supervision
• Govern and assure quality of psychological practice within the service
• Apply research, audit and evaluation to inform service development and evidence-based practice
• Contribute to policies, procedures and initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care
• Lead service transformation, redesign and recovery initiatives to embed sustainable improvements
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders to strengthen workforce capability and ensure safe, effective, recovery-focused care

Key requirements

• Postgraduate doctoral training in Clinical Psychology or equivalent accredited by the BPS
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of post-graduate learning within an Eating Disorders Service
• Desirable: child-focused therapeutic training
• Broad autonomous post-qualification experience with expert assessment, formulation and intervention in Eating Disorders context
• Minimum 50 hours of clinical supervision at highly specialist level in Eating Disorders or related area
• Experience delivering evidence-based interventions in Eating Disorders service
• Desirable: experience in service development, complex audit and group work with young people
• Expert knowledge of lifespan developmental child and adolescent psychology (including psychometrics)
• Significant experience in clinical supervision and supporting other clinical staff
• Desirable: experience in recruitment, selection and staff development

• compassionate leadership
• collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• effective communication
• expert clinical formulation and reasoning in Eating Disorders
• psychological assessment and intervention for children and young people
• clinical supervision and reflective practice

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