Job summary
The Adult Eating Disorder services are seeking to appoint a Specialist Clinical Lead who will support the development of Adult Eating Disorders within Durham, Darlington and Teesside as well as having a key role is supporting pathways across the Trust. The successful post holder must have significant experience at a senior professional level working with individuals with an eating disorder and be an approved clinician. The post holder must also have experience of improving services, pathways and successfully worked alongside internal and external stakeholders to enhance the service offered to service users.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be expected to (not exhaustive):
- Deliver high quality patient care,including providing highly specialist assessment of clients with highly complex, severe and enduring conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of source
- Delivering the core competencies of an Approved Clinician in relation to having a comprehensive understanding of the key function of the Approved Clinician and Responsible Clinician role, and applied knowledge of the legal policy frameworks, assessment, treatment, care planning multi-disciplinary team leadership, equality and diversity and communication
- Lead the multi-disciplinary care team in the development and implementation of multi-disciplinary care plans
- Accountable for own professional practice as a Consultant practitioner in the area of Eating Disorders with highly complex mental health conditions.. Care can be delivered in various settings e.g., acute trust wards, GP surgeries, other community settings etc
- Undertake risk assessment and risk management and provide highly specialist advice to other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and risk management and the high physical risks inherent in the client group
- Lead in the development, monitoring and evaluation of service improvements in own area and on multidisciplinary teams across the locality (Durham Darlington and Teesside) and support the development of Adult Eating Disorder services across the Trust
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
As a provider working within the North East North Cumbria Provider Collaborative you will join a network of specialist Eating Disorder practitioners who work collaboratively to ensure the the development of services across the North East North Cumbria region.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description for a detailed overview of the post and personal specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description for a detailed overview of the post and personal specification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Working as a specialist, qualified senior clinician within the designated clinical specialist area and service, including a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
- Exercising clinical responsibility for clients' care within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Teaching, training and clinical supervision for multi-disciplinary staff.
- Leads effectively with complex clinical presentations including both individual work and with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency professionals, as appropriate for speciality and service.
- Leads change management/ service developments in the team and across the speciality or service area as agreed with operational and relevant clinical professional leadership team.
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist OR Occupational Therapist OR Social Work England registration as a Social Worker OR Registration Mental health/ Learning Disabilities Nurse with current NMC registration
- Comprehensive portfolio of continued professional development demonstrating high level expertise within the speciality area
- Statutory approval as an Approved Clinician
- Completion of NHS Leadership and Management Training
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Working as a specialist, qualified senior clinician within the designated clinical specialist area and service, including a wide variety of client groups, across the lifespan and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
- Exercising clinical responsibility for clients' care within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Teaching, training and clinical supervision for multi-disciplinary staff.
- Leads effectively with complex clinical presentations including both individual work and with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency professionals, as appropriate for speciality and service.
- Leads change management/ service developments in the team and across the speciality or service area as agreed with operational and relevant clinical professional leadership team.
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist OR Occupational Therapist OR Social Work England registration as a Social Worker OR Registration Mental health/ Learning Disabilities Nurse with current NMC registration
- Comprehensive portfolio of continued professional development demonstrating high level expertise within the speciality area
- Statutory approval as an Approved Clinician
- Completion of NHS Leadership and Management Training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
