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Specialty Doctor in Eating Disorders ARFID Pathway

East London NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Good

London

Salary

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Posted

5 days ago

About the role

The East London Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP) is a dynamic and exciting multidisciplinary team including Therapies (family therapy, clinical psychology, assistant psychology), Medical (psychiatry and paediatrics), Nursing (mental health and paediatric nursing), Dietetics, Support Workers and Administrative and Operational staff. Our team covers the East London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney and operates a Hub and Spoke model, working closely with local acute Trusts, particularly Paediatrics. The ARFID Pathway is a dedicated, community-based specialist pathway within CEDS-CYP for children and young people aged 8-18 with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) or suspected ARFID. It delivers early, evidence-based, multidisciplinary assessment, consultation and brief intervention (a structured, time-limited 6-8 session model incorporating FBT-ARFID and CBT-AR approaches), supported by MDT formulation. The pathway addresses the gap between paediatric and mental health services, reduces fragmentation of care and prevents avoidable escalation to acute hospital or Tier 4 services. It provides equitable access for complex presentations, including children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, sensory sensitivities and physical health comorbidities.

Specialty Doctor in Eating Disorders ARFID Pathway

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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The Specialty Doctor will be an important part of the ARFID Pathway within CEDS-CYP. This is an interesting and exciting job offering regular joint and collaborative working with other members of the team to assess and treat children and young people with ARFID and their families. The post holder will provide high-quality, evidence-based mental and physical health assessments and contribute to treatment, including medical monitoring where required. This will include professional and practice development to ensure high-quality, client-centred care. The post holder will work closely with the Consultant Paediatrician for the pathway and the wider CEDS-CYP consultant psychiatry team, as well as dietetic, nursing and psychology colleagues, and will gain valuable liaison skills through working with community and acute paediatric teams. The post holder will also participate in the CEDS-CYP duty rota, as agreed with the supervising consultant. There is also the opportunity to be involved in audit, service evaluation, QI projects and research according to personal developmental goals. If interested, there is the opportunity to take on a therapy case under supervision, for example in systemic family therapy, family-based treatment or CBT.

ELFT as an Employer

The Trust employs 6,000 people in a variety of full-time and part-time posts. The Trust is committed to making the Trust an excellent place to work and in order to improve quality of life for all we serve; the Trust has four strategic aims:

Improving population health outcomes

Improving the experience of care

Improving staff experience

Improving value - to increase our productivity, reduce waste and cut out variation in clinical practice.

Our Focus on Quality

Quality of care is the Trust's top priority. It is at the forefront of all that we do and is firmly embodied in our mission to provide the highest quality mental health and community care in England by 2020.

Being the very best requires continual improvement - always seeking to do things better. Sometimes it involves fundamental change in the way things are done, with everyone working together sharing the same passion and commitment. Our strategy takes a whole-organization approach to quality improvement, and is built on experience and best practice from healthcare organizations and systems across the globe.

Person specification

Essential

MB.BS, MBChB or equivalent
Full registration with the GMC
Four years of full-time postgraduate training (or equivelant gained on a part-time/ flexible basis), with at least two years being in speciality training programme in a relevant speciality/ fixed term speciality trainee in relevant speciality or;
Equivalent experience and competencies
Experience of working with children and adolescents
Working in different clinical settings
Working with people with serious and enduring mental illness
Child and adolescent mental health disorders and their management
Mental Health Legislation
Outcomes measurements
Experience of pharmacological treatments
Risk assessment and risk management
Understanding and knowledge of the role voluntary organisations
Healthcare Governance
Excellent communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written
Develop effective working relationships
Function autonomously as well as being a team player
Assessing, formulating and prioritising patients' needs
Apply research and theory to practice
Ability to cope effectively under pressure and in stressful situations
Courteous and respectful of patients, families and carers
Assertive, independent, flexible
Capable of multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working

Desirable

Section 12 Approval
MRCPsych
Experience of working with young people with mental health problems of an acute and severe nature
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
Experience of eating disorders
Evidence based service development
Skills and a range of therapeutic interventions and psycho-social treatment options