Job overview
This post holder will provide a specialist service within Community Eating Disorders Service, CAMHS to young people and their families. This is a community-based post, located within the countywide
Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) Bedfordshire and Luton CAMHS offering flexible,
evidence-based episodes of care, assessments and treatments to all eating disorder presentations and co-morbidities. The post holder will be an experienced therapist with a substantial knowledge in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
Main duties of the job
The role will include the provision of highly specialist advice/consultation, assessment of mental health and eating disorder presentations, liaison with other agencies, systemic interventions, managing a caseload, clinical supervision, line management, and teaching of staff and/or other professionals.
The post holder will need to work flexibly within the team, and be able to provide tailored intervention based on client need and evidence-based treatment of eating disorders
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and the job description please contact
Eleanor Chesters
Clinical Team Lead
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as Social Work, Nursing, Psychology, Psychiatry, Teaching OR AFT-agreed equivalent
2. Masters or Doctoral level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy or AFT agreed equivalent
3. UKCP Registration
4. Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
5. Experience in delivering and clinically supervising appropriate family based therapies for treatment of eating disorders.
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Post-qualifying experience
7. Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
8. Experience of working with children and young people in an emotionally demanding environment.
9. Experience of working with children and young people and their families in a therapeutic context
Desirable criteria
10. Previous experience of working in CAMHS
11. Experience of working with a wide range of CAMHS problems
12. Experience of working with eating disorders
Skills
Essential criteria
13. Skills in the use of complex methods of specialist systemic assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, family systems and groups, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
14. A specialist level of clinical skill Skills in applying systemic theory to work with individuals, couples, family systems, groups and organisations
15. Well developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age appropriate level, complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to children, adolescents, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS
16. Ability to communicate distressing and unwelcome information to children, adolescents and their families
Desirable criteria
17. Previous experience of delivering FBT/FT in AN and eating disorders
18. Previous experience of facilitating group work would be desirable
19. Evidence of well developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS