Job SummaryThis post holder will provide a specialist service within Community Eating Disorders Service, CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the countywide Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS offering flexible, evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to all eating disorder presentations and co-morbidities. The post holder will be an experienced therapist with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
Main Duties of the JobThe role will include the provision of highly specialist advice/consultation, assessment of mental health and eating disorder presentations, liaison with other agencies, systemic interventions, managing a caseload, clinical supervision, line management, and teaching of staff and/or other professionals.
The post holder will need to work flexibly within the team, and be able to provide tailored intervention based on client need and evidence-based treatment of eating disorders
About UsOur mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job ResponsibilitiesFor further information and the job description please contact Eleanor Chesters, Clinical Team Lead, eleanor.chesters@nhs.net
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Psychiatry, Teaching OR AFT-agreed equivalent
- Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT agreed equivalent
- UKCP Registration
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable- Experience in delivering and clinically supervising appropriate family based therapies for treatment of eating disorders.
ExperienceEssential- Post-qualifying experience
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment.
- Experience of working with children and young people and their families in a therapeutic context
Desirable- Previous experience of working in CAMHS
- Experience of working with a wide range of CAMHS problems
- Experience of working with eating disorders
SkillsEssential- Skills in the use of complex methods of specialist systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- A specialist level of clinical skill Skills in applying systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
- Well developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level, complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS
- Ability to communicate distressing and unwelcome information to children, adolescents and their families
Desirable- Previous experience of delivering FBT/FT in AN and eating disorders
- Previous experience of facilitating group work would be desirable
- Evidence of well developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (Apply through our website). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Apply through our website).Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). 
