Herefordshire and Worcestershire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides specialist mental health support for children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs. The service delivers face‑to‑face assessments and therapeutic interventions.
Responsibilities
* Holding a defined caseload and providing evidence‑based therapeutic interventions to children and young people with disordered eating.
* Leading the disordered eating MDT.
* Providing education and training to staff.
* Providing supervision, consultation and advice to staff and system members.
* Being an active member of the leadership team and role‑modeling Trust behaviours.
* Undertaking regular travel to all bases across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
* Providing high‑quality evidence‑based therapeutic assessments and interventions to support children and young people who present with disordered eating.
* Undertaking consultation on and review of referrals in which disordered eating is a primary concern.
* Providing supervision and training to clinical staff.
* Clinical leadership of the disordered eating pathway and MDT.
* Liaising with clinicians, families and external agencies.
* Leading on care planning for identified cohort of children and young people.
* Managing data, outcomes and undertaking clinical service evaluation.
* Undertaking clinical audits.
Qualifications and Experience
* Senior clinician with experience of working therapeutically with children and young people with complex eating difficulties.
* Significant previous experience of undertaking evidence‑based psychological therapeutic interventions to support children and young people with disordered eating.
* Experience of autonomously leading on clinical pathways.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision and consultation to clinical staff.
* Solution‑focused, driven and passionate in delivering high standards of care to children, young people and families.
Benefits
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours.
* Flexible and agile working opportunities.
* Great maternity, paternity and adoption support.
* Wide range of supportive staff networks.
* Health and wellbeing opportunities.
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