Overview
We are specialist child and adolescent mental health that who support children and young people up to the age of 18 years old experiencing moderate to severe eating disorders.
Our team includes consultant psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses and social workers, family therapists, dietitians and administrators. The service has focused on delivering timely access to assessment and evidence-based treatment for children and young people with anorexia nervosa and moderate to severe bulimia and binge eating disorder.
We offer specialist, family based approaches, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, cognitive analytical therapy, motivational interviewing and guided self-help. In addition, we are expanding to include an intensive home meal support provision to allow children and young people to remain in the community for treatment and avoid or delay admission to specialist units and acute hospitals.
Treatment involves specialist eating disorder assessment and participation in planned treatment programmes, including individual work, family work, family meals and support around managing difficulties linked with eating linked to specialist dietetic input.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Equal opportunities employer: We encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Responsibilities
* The post holder will undertake specialist systemic family assessment and care planned interventions of young people and families referred to the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.
* Responsible for the delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients. These treatments may include the following systemic psychotherapy interventions:
o Conjoint family therapy (all family members present in the room at the same time, plus patient and other members of multi‑disciplinary team).
o Separated family therapy (i.e. parental counselling and individual systemic counselling running in parallel).
o Multi‑family group therapy
* The post holder is expected to participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment and to consult to multi‑disciplinary and multi‑agency colleagues regarding the family treatment component of each patient’s care. Assessment of family interactions and formulating how these are connected to diagnostic factors will be a key component of the post, influencing the direction of treatment and recommendations for appropriate family interventions.
* To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
* To monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni‑ and multi‑disciplinary care, and to provide appropriate reports on this.
* To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of systemic assessment and formulation and treatment outcome, in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers.
* To assist in the management of the team caseload.
* To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non‑statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.
* To provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment including: psycho‑education, liaising with other professionals, engaging in treatment including using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion and crisis intervention.
* To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment and risk management in line with Trust and inter‑agency policies and procedures.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026.
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