Eating Disorders Senior Clinician

The candidate will hold excellent communication skills, be enthusiastic in their approach and demonstrate an understanding of the complexities involved in this specialist area of mental health

• To work with the supervision of the Highly Specialist Clinician and Band 7 Clinicians with patients with clinically significant eating disorders
• To assess patient and family needs and devise an appropriate care plan, communicating the plan in writing to the patient with copies to their GP, referrer and other involved parties
• To participate in the measurement of outcome, timely recording of clinical notes and communication of any significant clinical changes including ending of treatment in writing to the patient and their GP
• To provide evidence based treatments for children, adolescents and adults and their families as appropriate (currently Family Based Treatment [FBT], and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy-Enhanced [CBT-E] 

We have a team of highly dedicated and skilled clinical staff and due to a surge in demand following the Covid 19 pandemic we are looking to expand our service. 

We will provide the successful candidate with a high level of psychosocial training including CBTE and family based therapy.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.