Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist

The closing date is 01 March 2026

Community Eating Disorders Service offers specialist outpatient care to those with moderate to severe eating disorder across Hertfordshire. We offer multidisciplinary treatment to adults with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder. As well as psychological therapy, we also offer dietetic support, psychiatric input, nursing care and support work, occupational therapy and support with social care needs. We offer outpatient treatment in the community and we also have a day unit and access to the East of England Admission Avoidance Team and local Specialist Inpatient Units.

Our friendly team is mainly located at Rosanne House in Welwyn Garden City but we also provide satellite clinics across the county of Hertfordshire so that we are closer to where our patients lives.

Our team of 15+ psychological therapists, psychologists and arts therapists work in a integrative way drawing on NICE recommended treatments as well as individual formulation-based work. The successful candidate will receive regular supervision from a senior member of the team and will have access to a broad range of training related to eating disorders.

The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention for groups and individuals with moderate to severe eating disorders, as well as offering specialist advice and consultation to clients, their families, carers, and mental health professionals in relevant care settings. The post holder will supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/psychotherapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.

The post-holder will work closely with psychological therapy colleagues and colleagues within the wider MDT. The post-holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures, and utilize research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the CEDS.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

The above service delivery includes provision of:

To provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation of clients with moderate to severe eating disorders.

To provide a range of brief, medium and long-term specialist psychological interventions/psychotherapy using at least one of the evidence-based therapy models for the treatment of eating disorders (i.e. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT-E, MANTRA, SSCM, Family and Systemic Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy).

To supervise, consult and support trainee psychologists/ psychologists/psychotherapists and other…