Job Description

About us



Priory Hospital Roehampton in London, is one of the country's leading rehab facilities for mental health treatment and addiction rehab.



At Priory, we excel in treating complex mental health issues, specialising in effective therapies for depression, anxiety, and tailored addiction treatments for substances including alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. Our services extend to comprehensive outpatient support for adults managing eating disorders. Roehampton offers a dedicated young people's mental health inpatient service across 2 wards: Richmond Court and Kingston Court, and also conduct thorough autism assessments for children.



At Priory, we offer excellent career progression opportunities, comprehensive training, and--above all--flexible working hours and patterns within a friendly CAMHS team.



Our team of highly skilled psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, nurses, and mental health professionals is dedicated to your recovery. Committed to excellence, we provide evidence-based, personalised treatment plans designed to help you overcome your challenges and move towards a fulfilling, healthy future.



We have an exciting opportunity for a psychologist to join our therapy team on our CAMHS Inpatient Eating Disorder Unit. You will have the opportunity to work with skilled therapy team that includes family therapy, occupational therapy and dietitians as well as a number of complimentary therapies. We provide great training opportunities, learning opportunities and CPD events.

Main Duties:

To undertake specialist clinical duties contributing to assessment and treatment of patients.

To provide Psychological Therapies for young people with an eating disorder, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of patients with complex presentations, formulating plans for treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals and groups.

To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based on appropriate analysis, interpretation, and integration of complex qualitative and quantitative data.

To administer and interpret assessments of cognitive and emotional functioning as required and to assist the multi-disciplinary team in diagnosis, problem formulation and the planning/development of an appropriate treatment plan.

To plan, implement, and evaluate individual and group treatments, informed by formulations of patients' problems based on appropriate theoretical and therapeutic models and best practice guidelines.



Essential



You will be registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.

You will have experience of and/or an interest in working with young people with an eating disorder



Desirable



To have clinical supervision training.

To have training in two or more distinct psychological therapies.

To have skills in individual and group work and in program planning.

To have skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment to inform the psychological formulation and intervention.

To have well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.

Our benefits:

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (at commencement of employment) plus a day off for your birthday

A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP)

Free parking

Long Service Annual Leave entitlements

Carefirst - Employee Assistance Services

Continuous learning and development

Voluntary Benefits



Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer.



No agencies please



If you forward any CV's to the Priory Group and you are not on the Priory Group PSL and have not been asked to work on the above role we will accept the CV as a gift.



For more information in this role please email andreastroyd@priorygroup.com