CYP Eating Disorder Family Therapist / Psychologist

To create complex psychological formulations using specialist multidimensional assessments to guide the development of packages of care for the service user with eating disorders and/or their carers. To ensure that packages of care are communicated and implemented according to the care programme approach. To provide appropriate advocacy for service users and their families to ensure the provision of the care package. To provide evidence based individual and group therapy for carers of service users with eating disorders. To ensure the compatibility of these treatments with other treatments or interventions offered to the service user. To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of service users whose problems are managed within the EDS, using principles of the care programme approach to ensure communication with all services involved with the service user., To provide specialist ED informed expert consultation, liaison and supervision to other teams and professionals working with service users with eating disorders to assist with the development of formulations, care plans, and appropriate interventions within available evidenced based models employed. To provide advice and consultation on psychological therapy models for eating disorders to all teams within NELFT, local PCTs, and local independent sector services. To undertake specialist risk assessments and risk management decisions for individual service users. To provide specialist expert opinions on risk assessment and management for service users with eating disorders to all teams in NELFT. To ensure that complex and difficult information, often around issues of abuse, harm to others, child protection, or diagnosis of eating disorder, is communicated effectively with sufficient care given to high levels of distress, hostility, and concerns about confidentiality. To provide specialist
advice, training, and supervision in managing aggression, self-harm, suicidality, and hostility from a psychologically informed perspective. To participate in the development of evaluations of the evidence-based interventions provided by the EDS. Employees of the Trust will be required to promote and support the mission and vision of the service for which they are responsible. Develop and maintain good communication with all levels of management within

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.