Band 7 Eating Disorders CAMHS Therapist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Hampstead; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting clinicians to join our busy community CAMHS Eating Disorders team. The role centers on assessment and therapy using Family Therapy for Anorexia (FT-AN) and ARFID (FT-AR) with training available. You will work within a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with partner agencies.

You will contribute to service development, manage your caseload, and communicate sensitively with families and referrers across the team.

Qualifications

• The post holder will be a key clinician within the multidisciplinary assessment clinic.
• Deliver FT-AN model where appropriate with timely, sensitive care.
• Communicate with family, referrer and professionals about assessment and treatment plans.
• Manage own caseload following Trust protocols.
• Co-ordinate a care package suited to the client’s needs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments and formulate treatment plans.
• Provide FT-AN and other therapeutic interventions within CAMHS expertise.
• Collaborate with partner agencies to expand ARFID services.

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician with an enthusiasm for working with this client group to join our busy community CAMHS Eating Disorders team. We are keen to recruit candidates with experience of working in eating disorders or child and adolescent mental health from child & adolescent psychotherapy. We are a multidisciplinary team and there is excellent support within each professional group, and there are good opportunities for training and development in this specialist area.
The primary role will be assessment and therapy work using Family Therapy for Anorexia (FT-AN), and ARFID (FT-AR) training is available in this model. Successful candidates will also provide other therapeutic interventions within their professional child and adolescent psychotherapy expertise. We are a multidisciplinary team and we work closely with our partner agencies.
We have additional funding to expand our ARFID service. Successful candidates will work as part of our community team, and will also contribute to service development.
Providing Family Therapy for Anorexia (FT-AN), and ARFID other therapeutic interventions, to children and young people with eating disorders as part of a multidisciplinary team., 1.1 The post-holder will be a key clinician within the multidisciplinary assessment clinic for new referrals and will be responsible for delivering the FT-AN model where appropriate in a timely, efficient and sensitive manner, working alongside professional colleagues.
1.2 To communicate with the family, referrer, other professionals and the specialist multidisciplinary team in a sensitive and skilled manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans, and co-ordinate a care package appropriate for the client's needs.
1.3 To assume responsibility for managing own caseload, following the Trust and service protocols. This will include reviewing and assessing the young person's level of risk on a regular basis changing the treatment plan accordingly and liaising with the young person's Senior Clinicians as required.
1.4 In conjunction with the specialist multidisciplinary team, to identity and assess the suitability of discipline relevant interventions for cases as identified, incorporating the capacity of the individual, family and network to support the suggested intervention.
1.5 In addition to provision of multidisciplinary assessments, the post-holder will be responsible for carrying out therapeutic assessments relevant to their core discipline, devising a detailed care and treatment plan.
1.6 With reference to own professional limitations ensure excellent communication with colleagues within the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service and generic CAMHS teams when dealing with complex mental health risk assessments for eating disorder clients. Where required ensure safe transfer of care.
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