Eating Disorders Senior Clinician - Cheltenham, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

The Eating Disorders Service at The Brownhill Centre, Cheltenham is recruiting an experienced and enthusiastic senior clinician to work within a specialist mental health service.

The service provides specialist assessment, treatment and support for individuals who are experiencing an eating disorder and their families within Gloucestershire.

The post holder will assess, clinically manage, care co-ordinate and treat children, adolescents and adults with an eating disorder and their families.

Working alongside other health care professionals including RMN's, RGN's GP's, Dieticians and Consultant Psychiatrists in order to support service users within their recovery.

To work with the supervision of the Lead Clinician and Band 7 Clinicians with patients with clinically significant eating disorders
To assess patient and family needs and devise an appropriate care plan, communicating the plan in writing to the patient with copies to their GP, referrer and other involved parties
To participate in the measurement of outcome, timely recording of clinical notes and communication of any significant clinical changes including ending of treatment in writing to the patient and their GP
To provide evidence based treatments for children, adolescents and adults and their families as appropriate (currently Family Based Treatment [FBT], Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-Enhanced [CBT-E] and Interpersonal Psychotherapy [IPT])
To provide treatment for patients with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

We have an exciting opportunity in our Gloucestershire NHS Eating Disorders service.

We have a team of highly dedicated and skilled clinical staff and due to a surge in demand following the Covid 19 pandemic we are looking to expand our service.

You will be working with adolescents providing an evidenced based treatment and be over seen and supported by our highly skilled clinical leads.

We will ensure you feel confident and equipped to carry out this role and provide you with regular clinical and managerial supervision.

If you would like to discuss this learning opportunity further please do contact us, we look forward to talking to you and welcoming you to our service.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closing date: 5th March 2023