Consultant Psychiatrist in AMH Eating Disorders

The Adult Eating Disorders Service sits within the Adult Mental Health Care Group and provides specialist assessment, treatment and management for adults aged 18 years and over with moderate to severe eating disorders across North Yorkshire and York. The service covers a large geographical area including York, Selby, Harrogate, Ripon, Northallerton, Scarborough and surrounding rural communities, serving a population of approximately 850,000 residents. This Consultant post will be for the York, Selby and SWR (Scarborough Whitby Rydale part of the patch with a current caseload of 55-60 patients. The post holder will provide emergency cross cover for the Eating Disorder Consultant in the Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmond half of the service on that Consultants non working days ie 2 days per week. The locality encompasses areas of significant socioeconomic diversity, including pockets of considerable deprivation alongside affluent urban and rural communities. The large geographical
footprint, rurality and increasing awareness of eating disorders contribute to sustained demand for specialist services.

Main duties of the job

It is the expectation that the post-holder will provide senior leadership and oversight to the learning and development needs of the wider team. The post will be primarily based at Huntington House (York) where the post-holder will have access to dedicated office space as well as the option of hot desk working in the shared team office and at each site (ie Ellis Centre in Scarborough). The post holder will be expected to provide clinic time in each of the main sites on a regular basis.

In addition to the core team of staff listed above, there is an expectation for the post holder to support medical students, post-graduate doctors and students of other disciplines on rotation with the team.

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country operating from sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).