Due to promotion, we are looking to recruit/second a passionate, knowledgeable and dynamic Team Leader to join our Specialist Family Eating Disorder Service (SFEDS) until October 2025.
SFEDS works with young people aged 10-18 with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Atypical Anorexia Nervosa and their families, and supports recovery through Evidence Based Interventions such as Maudsley Family Therapy models, group work, and CBT-E.
You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team which is comprised of a service manager, psychiatry, paediatrics, Family and Systemic Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychology and Assistant Psychologists, Occupational Therapy, Nurses, Support Workers, Dietitian, and Social Workers with support from the administration team. Our team is responsible for covering all of Sussex, operating as a hub and spoke model. The hub is moving to Aldrington House, Hove with spoke sites in Horsham, Hove, and Hailsham.
As the Team Leader, you will lead and manage the day-to-day running of the service, supporting both the clinical team. You will also hold clinical responsibility in ensuring there is sufficient resource to cover the service treatment and interventions for families/carers and young people in line with evidence-based treatment.
You will coordinate and lead:
* The Home Intervention Team
* Management of referrals to the service
* Performance monitoring and management
* Line Management and supervision of staff
* Development of a research framework, including evaluation and audit in order to provide an evidence-based treatment model
* Support to review in the development and review of the operational policy
* Recruitment and retention
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people, and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognize that care for patients is our top priority.
Other Key Staff Survey Results Include:
* 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
* 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Pratima Hurrymun
Job title: Interim Service Manager
Email address: p.hurrymun@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07471032027 #J-18808-Ljbffr