NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area: Clinical Lead adult eating disorders
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 395-WF151-24-E
Site: NELFT Eating Disorders Service
Town: Barking
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 pa, plus HCAS (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
Clinical Lead (Adult): NELFT Community Eating Disorders Service
We are looking for a part-time Adult Clinical Lead with substantial experience of treating eating disorders to join the established NELFT London Community Eating Disorder Service.
The successful candidate will play a lead role in shaping the ongoing development of the service and the team, including identifying and responding to new opportunities and further developing our clinical pathways.
In line with the NELFT vision, they will be committed to developing a service that provides the best possible care for service users and their families, delivered by the best people, as well as the maintenance of a mutually supportive and stimulating working environment.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work closely with the Service and Strategic lead, the Team Manager, the Adult Consultant Psychiatrist and the Clinical Lead (CYP), alongside the wider team. With colleagues, they will be accountable for the ongoing development and delivery of a comprehensive community Eating Disorder Service for adult patients and for the clinical standards to which the service operates. They will also play a central role in maintaining effective working relationships with key external stakeholders, including colleagues in primary care, from the North East London Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative, the ICBs and other statutory and voluntary agencies.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To provide clinical leadership and quality control to ensure adherence to evidence-based models in eating disorders and ongoing therapist development.
2. To set, implement and evaluate clear, achievable and measurable objectives for EDS with the service lead, service manager, Consultant psychiatrists and pathway leads.
3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly safeguarding.
4. To ensure and have advanced knowledge of effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
Person specification
Skills
* Evidence of advanced formulation and key lines of enquiry
* Evidence of delivering expert supervision
* Evidence of advanced training
* Delivering training in eating disorders at advanced level
Qualifications
* Post graduate qualifications to MSc level and above
* Significant experience in NHS and ED service
* Experience of managing teams
Knowledge
* Direct eating disorders experience
* Inpatient and community ED experience
Experience
* Evidence of strong leadership skills
* Evidence of MDT working
* Experience of leading a team
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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