Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Eating Disorders Senior Clinician
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About the Role
The Eating Disorders Service in Gloucestershire is growing and as part of Community Mental Health Transformation a review of all posts has been completed. We welcome applicants from traditional Mental Health Nursing backgrounds as well as Allied Health Professionals – Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Arts Therapists, Physiotherapists.
The service provides specialist assessment, treatment and support for individuals who are experiencing an eating disorder and their families within Gloucestershire.
The GHC Eating Disorders Service is recruiting an experienced and enthusiastic senior clinician to work within a specialist mental health service. The role will predominately focus on the treatment of Children and Adults with a complex presentation. The service is based in Cheltenham and Gloucester holding a caseload of 700 clients.
Responsibilities
- Assess, clinically manage, care co-ordinate and treat children, adolescents and adults with an eating disorder and their families.
- Work alongside other health care professionals including RMN’s, RGN’s, GP’s, Dieticians, AHP's, Psychologists and Consultant Psychiatrists in order to support service users within their recovery.
- Hold excellent communication skills, be enthusiastic in their approach and demonstrate an understanding of the complexities involved in this specialist area of mental health.
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- 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].
Benefits
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.
About Us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
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- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: James Lewis-Watkins
- Job title: Eating Disorders Operational Manager
- Email address: james.lewis-watkins1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01242 634263
James Lewis-Watkins, email James.Lewis-watkins1@nhs.net
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