ICP/ARFID Pathway
We are delighted to announce the further expansion of TWO of our newest additions in our portfolio: Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is characterised by a pattern of eating that avoids certain foods or food groups entirely, and/or is restricted in quantity and driven by sensory or avoided consequence factors. There has been increasing acknowledgement of a gap in services for ARFID, or suspected ARFID. As a result, referrals are inconsistently made to a wide range of services, including children and young people community eating disorder services, standard children and young people mental health services, community paediatrics, neurodevelopmental services, dietetic, speech and language, acute paediatric services and adult mental health services.
We are also expanding our intensive home-based eating disorder treatment pathway in the form of an enhanced care pathway (Intensive Care Pathway - ICP). These forms of treatment have the potential to minimise inpatient admissions (including out-of-area placements), reduce length of stay in inpatient settings and improve experience of discharge from inpatient care as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
We are very excited to be developing the ARFID and ICP pathways in Kent and Medway which requires a number of new staff positions.
Main duties of the job
We are ideally looking for a post holder who has either newly qualified or about to qualify as an HCPC registered professional: practitioner psychologist, CBT therapist, family therapist etc. You will need to be passionate about delivering high quality care to complex mental health service users and be innovative in your approach to helping us in developing new pathways within the NHS transformation agenda.
Prospective post holders are encouraged to find out more about this exciting role. Please contact Dr Annie Cardinal in the first instance.
North East London NHS Foundation Trust All-Age Eating Disorders Service is based in the County of Kent. We have a strong focus on training and research and team members benefit from excellent training and CPD opportunities. We have well developed links with NHSE and access to up-to-date training within transformation therapies and Leadership. We have close links to Christchurch University and the University of Kent and their Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training and Clinical Apprenticeship Psychologist Masters Programmes respectively, as well as close links to nursing training.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
1. To provide evidence-based interventions including family and individual cognitive behavioural interventions to service users and their families seen within the Kent and Medway eating disorders team using specialist knowledge and breadth of understanding of child and adolescent mental health theories, evidence-based assessments and interventions and to manage complex cases.
2. To take an active role in developing the research activities of the team and audit and interpret complex data to develop own and others understanding of mental disorders.
3. To contribute to the training activities of the team both within the service and externally.
4. To use and maintain skilled standards of personal professional clinical practice in the treatment modalities required by the children and young people treated by the team and be a resource to the whole service in maintaining the skills of others.
5. To provide specialist assessments and evidence-based interventions for service users with an eating disorder.
6. To provide consultation and advice to members of own team and other teams on psychological issues, primarily Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural models of understanding eating disorders in young people.
7. To provide consultation and advice on risk assessment and risk management of service users with an eating disorder to members of own team and other teams.
8. To provide supervision to staff on Family therapy based or cognitive-behavioural interventions as appropriate with service users with an eating disorder.
9. To undertake research into eating disorders.
10. To provide training in working with eating disorders to mental health teams and other specialist services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Accredited / professional qualification relevant to job role
Desirable
* Two years post reg qualification
Experience
Essential
* Experience in delivering high quality psychological therapy
* Experience in working in a specialist eating disorders team
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of evidence based treatments in eating disorders
* Knowledge/experience of working within an MDT
Skills
Essential
* Advanced communication skills e.g. within a network setting, with families and service users
Desirable
* Able to deliver clinical supervision to junior staff
Employer details
Employer name
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address
The Courtyard
Pudding Lane
Maidstone
ME14 1PA
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