Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health Eating Disorders
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Darlington
Salary
£113,565 – £150,569
Posted
2 weeks ago
About the role
The Trust provides both specialist inpatient and community eating disorder services and has both Adults and CAMHS elements to this. This post is based in the adult eating disorder inpatient unit at Birch Ward, West Park Hospital. The unit hosts the North East & North Cumbria Regional eating disorder beds alongside extra beds for extra-contractual referrals. This forms the Northern Centre for Eating Disorders (NCED). The NCEDs purpose is to provide specialist tertiary eating disorder inpatient services for all ages both within the North East Specialist Services Regional Commissioning area and nationally to those requiring high intensity inpatient care who are either too high risk for community management or such approaches have deemed to have failed. Birch ward service provision is for patients aged 18 and over. The dedicated multi-disciplinary teams in the NCED provide comprehensive multi-domain - physical, nutritional, psychological, social and occupational - individualised treatment approaches for patients suffering from - Anorexia Nervosa Severe and complex Bulimia Nervosa Atypical Eating Disorders
Co-morbid physical conditions with eating disorders Birch Ward is a 10 bedded unit at West Park Hospital. The average length of stay for patients on the ward is 6 months. On average, 3 patients are detained under MHA.