Specialty Doctor All age Community Eating Disorders

NHS Jobs; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor for All Age Community Eating Disorders to work within the Eating Disorder Multi-disciplinary team.

The post involves collaboration with the consultant, Service Manager and senior clinicians to ensure comprehensive care for young people with eating disorders, with emphasis on physical health risk management in line with MEED guidance.

Qualifications

• Clinical assessment and risk assessment skills
• Ability to work within a MDT and with senior clinicians
• Experience with pharmacological management and medication reviews

Responsibilities

• Work within the Eating Disorder MDT to provide comprehensive packages of care for young people with eating disorders
• Conduct initial assessments including risk assessment and develop care plans with consultant support
• Provide consultation to other team members and professional networks as required
• Manage complex cases with acute physical and psychological risks under consultant support
• Perform routine medication reviews and participate in care plan reviews and formulations with the consultant
• Collaborate with CYP and adult ED teams, participate in multi-agency partnerships and liaison with services
• Contribute to routine clinical tasks such as consultations and therapy as negotiated
• Assess referrals and review emergency referrals with MDT support

Job description

Specialty Doctor All age Community Eating Disorders

To work collaboratively within the Eating Disorder Multi-disciplinary team, whilst providing support to the consultant, Service Manager, and other senior clinicians to ensure comprehensive packages of care for young people experiencing eating disorder. To ensure comprehensive physical health risk management in line with MEED guidance and in conjunction with colleagues within Paediatric team. Regular reviews of blood results and ECG to inform the physical risk assessment. To be able to conduct/ join initial assessments, including assessment of risk to self and others and develop care plan with access to support from consultant depending upon the need. With support from the consultant, provide consultation to other members of the team regarding cases being managed by the team, and consultation to professional networks as required. In collaboration with team members and with support from the consultant, management of complex cases with management acute physical and psychological risks, including management of pharmacological treatments. To offer routine medication reviews, with support from the consultant depending upon the need. Clinical participation and engagement with MDT, including participation in and running care plan reviews and formulation meetings with support from consultant. To work collaboratively with the eating disorder inpatient consultant psychiatrists within CYP and adult ED units Multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership working including liaison and collaborative working with other services/agencies. Medics are not expected routinely to take on the role of case coordinator and there is a team caseload ethos. Involvement in other clinical tasks for the team (routine consultations, therapy) may be possible, but would be negotiated through job planning and would take second priority to the key psychiatric tasks. Provide assessments of referrals, with support from the consultant, review emergency referrals and respond as required with support from the MDT

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust