This therapist post sits within the community CAMHS Eating Disorders team at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, working with children and young people. The core of the role is assessment and therapy, mainly Family Therapy for Anorexia with other interventions from the postholder's own discipline, within a multidisciplinary team. The post also supports a newly funded expansion of the ARFID service, and the postholder will contribute to service development. Fit depends on a relevant registered profession, and the trust offers training in FT-AR.
What the job involves
- Deliver Family Therapy for Anorexia and other therapeutic interventions to children and young people with eating disorders
- Act as a key clinician in the multidisciplinary assessment clinic for new referrals
- Take part in the team's triage and assessment system
- Work with the professional network around a child
- Carry out therapeutic assessments relevant to the core discipline and devise care and treatment plans
- Communicate assessments, formulations and treatment plans to families, referrers and professionals, and coordinate care packages
- Manage own caseload, review risk regularly and adjust treatment plans
- Identify and assess the suitability of discipline-relevant interventions with the specialist team
- Communicate with CAMHS Eating Disorders and generic CAMHS colleagues on complex risk assessments and ensure safe transfer of care
- Support expansion of the ARFID service and contribute to service development
What’s required
Qualifications
- Relevant core allied health profession
- Postgraduate training in clinical or counselling psychology, systemic family psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychotherapy, or a mental health nursing degree or diploma
Registration & licences
- HCPC registration
- UKCP registration
- Professional registration with the Association of Child Psychotherapists
- Active NMC registration
Experience
- Specialist multidisciplinary assessment and treatment in CAMHS or eating disorder services
- Working independently in a community health multidisciplinary team, managing own workload within supervisory structures
- Working with professional networks such as education and social services
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of child and adolescent legislation, including safeguarding
- Knowledge of NHS, social care and education structures and national policy
- Clear oral and written communication of complex information to families and professionals, including those without psychological training
Other
- Enthusiasm for therapeutic work in eating disorder CAMHS
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to sustain the emotional demands of working with a life-threatening patient group while tolerating anxiety
Nice to have
- Experience with children, adolescents and parents across a range of mental health difficulties and severity
- Experience in a specialist eating disorders service
- Experience of applying therapy in different cultural contexts
- Experience of working with groups
- High-level knowledge of short and long-term therapy with individuals and families, applied to eating disorders
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks for the patient group
- Skills in consulting with professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to teach and train others using multimedia materials
What’s offered
- Flexible hours
- Generous benefits
- Training and development in the specialist area, including FT-AR training
- Support within the professional group
- Career opportunities across a large trust
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
