Senior Eating Disorders Therapist - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Senior Eating Disorder Therapist will play an integral role in providing quality, person-centered care to young people and families in the Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP).

They will play a role in completing specialist eating disorder assessments that follow standardised protocols.

They will use evidence based and NICE concordant interventions for eating disorders to children and young people and their families.

They will care coordinate a substantial caseload of assessment, treatment and consultation work, identifying priorities of action in complex circumstances.

The post holder will utilise specialist skills to be able to support and communicate with young people, families and other professionals - building and maintain strong relationships in often highly complex and emotionally distressing circumstances.

Our 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.

The East London Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) is a multidisciplinary team including Therapies (family therapy, clinical/ counselling psychology, assistant psychology), Medical (psychiatry and paediatrics), Nursing (mental health and paediatric nursing), Dietetics, Support Workers & Administrative and Operational staff.

We offer specialist services including assessment and treatment to young people under 18 who are experiencing an eating disorder. Our team covers the East London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney