Clinical Psychologist - Eating Disorders

Clinical Psychologist - Eating Disorders

The closing date is 08 March 2026

To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology therapy service to service users of the Adult Eating Disorder Service as part of a multi-disciplinary team SEDS (Specialist Eating Disorders Service).

To work with the SEDS team for our service users in their respective geographical areas. SEDS is a regional service covering South Yorkshire (Sheffield hub and regional spokes within Barnsley, Rotherham & Doncaster). Working with patients attending clinics, in community and inpatient settings and in their own homes.

To work in partnership with service users and other agencies to ensure effective liaison and communication.

To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy at the same time as offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist/therapist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. In common with all Clinical Psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice.

To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust & HCPC policies/guidelines/standards.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Adult Eating Disorder Service (SEDS).

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user's problems.

To train in and deliver specialist psychological therapies for client group (e.g. MANTRA, CBT-ED).

To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with complex and distressing psychological problems, including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Atypical Eating Disorders.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/therapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To provide supervision to other MDT staff's psychological work, as appropriate.

To provide professional and clinical supervision of assistant psychologists where appropriate.

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of.

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Adult Eating Disorder Service (SEDS), based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and psychometric tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the persons care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.

To work on a daily basis in face to face individual, family and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with complex and distressing psychological problems, including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Atypical Eating Disorders.

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

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic…