We are looking for a full time Clinical Lead who is a systemic psychotherapist with substantial experience of treating eating disorders to join our well 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 good quality care for service users and their families, delivered by a skilled and committed team, as well as ensuring the work environment is inclusive, innovative and supportive.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Strategic lead, the Team Manager, the CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists and senior clinical colleagues, alongside the wider team. With colleagues, they will be accountable for the ongoing development and delivery of a comprehensive community Eating Disorder Service for CYP including the intensive community treatment pathway 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 central and east London CYP Eating Disorder Provider Collaborative, the ICBs and other statutory and voluntary agencies.
Key Responsibilities
1. In collaboration with NELFT EDS service Lead and senior clinical and medical colleagues, provide leadership, and promote initiative, creativity and motivation to ensure staff's personal development and training needs are addressed.
2. Coordinate the implementation of service developments and changes ensuring that all operational implications are considered and disruption to services is minimised.
3. Participate/lead in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
4. Actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
5. Facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
Clinical Leadership
1. Provide clinical leadership and quality control to ensure adherence to evidence-based models in eating disorders and ongoing therapist development.
2. Set, implement and evaluate clear, achievable and measurable objectives for EDS with the service lead, service manager, Consultant psychiatrists and pathway leads.
3. Have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly safeguarding.
4. 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.
5. Take a lead in ensuring that the team remains inclusive, well supervised, and well supported with opportunities for growth and development.
Clinical Skills & Qualifications
1. The post-holder will be a post‑graduate qualified systemic psychotherapist fully registered with UKCP/AFT. We welcome applicants who are dual‑qualified eg clinical/counselling psychologists, social workers, nurse specialists.
2. Be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients, via NICE compliant pathways for eating disorders.
3. Be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of clients with a variety of conditions.
4. Provide clients and families with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
5. Ensure practice is supported by research, evidence based practice, literature and peer review.
Benefits
* A long‑standing and award‑winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long‑term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* Commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work‑life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
* Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
* As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
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NHS AfC: Band 8b
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. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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