Specialty Doctor in Eating Disorders

The East London Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS) is a dynamic and exciting multidisciplinary team including Therapies (family therapy, clinical psychology, assistant psychology), Medical (psychiatry and paediatrics), Nursing (mental health and paediatric nursing), Dietetics, Support Workers & Administrative and Operational staff.
We offer specialist community services including assessment and treatment to young people under 18 who are experiencing an eating disorder. Our team covers the East London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney and we operate a Hub and Spoke model. We work closely with the local Acute Trusts, namely Paediatrics, and the post holder would gain valuable liaison skills whilst working in this team.
As part of our Alternative to Admission Pathway, the service has developed an Eating Disorder Intensive Pathway (EDIP), based on a hospital from home model. The post offers an exciting opportunity to work within this intensive community provision, providing proactive and timely multidisciplinary support to young people in the community in order to avoid unnecessary psychiatric admissions, and treat young people in their own communities.
The service has recently been shortlisted for the Royal College of Psychiatrists Team of the Year Quality Improvement Award for its QI Project on Capacity, Flow & Waiting Times., The Specialty Doctor will be an important part of the Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP).
This is an interesting and exciting job offering regularly joint/collaborative working with other members of the team to assess and treat young people experiencing an eating disorder and their loved ones. The post holder will provide high quality evidence based mental health assessments, therapy and treatment. This will include professional and practice development to ensure high quality client-centred care. There post holder will also participate in the duty rota which providing rapid response to urgent clinical situations within office hours. There is also the opportunity of being involved in audit, service evaluation, QI projects as well as research. If interested there is the opportunity take on a therapy case under supervision namely in systemic family therapy, family therapy for anorexia nervosa or CBT.
The team is passionate about Quality Improvement and Research. The post holder will have the opportunity to be involved in quality improvement work, audit, teaching or research according to their personal developmental goals.
We encourage those interested in the post to get in touch and would welcome anyone interested in the role to come and spend some time with the team. We would also be delighted to facilitate special interest days also., These posts are based in East London. A timetable of commitments will be agreed with the supervising consultant and will include of mental health, physical health and therapeutic aspects to the role.
The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Team Leads for EL-CEDS-CYP and will be formally supervised by the lead Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Sophia Ulhaq. Supervision will be offered once a week for an hour, the time can be agreed at the start of the placement. Dr Ulhaq is an experienced Clinical Supervisor in the Trust and is also an Educational Supervisor for the Royal London/GOSH Higher Training Scheme.
There is an additional Consultant Psychiatrist and 2 Consultant Paediatricians in the team that can provide informal supervision, teaching and support as needed.
The central base for this post is Emanuel Miller Centre, Tower Hamlets but travel is often required to spoke sites and to the acute Paediatric wards depending on clinical need.
The post-holder may participate in the teaching of other disciplines and any in-service training within the team.
Clinical Duties
The post-holder will:
Together with other members of the EL-CEDS-CYP MDT, the post-holder would be expected to assess new referrals and to maintain a treatment caseload of children and young people with Eating Disorders, monitoring use of medication and other treatments as appropriate.
+ Provide assessments (including physical health assessment) and treatment of young people presenting with mental health difficulties as part of a multi-disciplinary team assessment.
+ Provide appropriate medical monitoring, psychiatric and therapeutic follow-up and treatment of a case load of young people under supervision of the consultant.
+ Undertake emergency psychiatric assessments as part of the duty rota providing urgent and emergency mental health assessments
+ The role includes attendance at weekly team meetings and reviews, as well as providing appropriate clinical support to non-medical staff within the team
+ Discharge all clinical duties in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
+ To be part of a rota of duty clinicians managing referrals and providing rapid response to urgent clinical situations, which may involve attendance to acute ward
Administrative Duties
+ Prepare reports, letters and clinical summaries as required
+ Liaise with other agencies involved in care of patients
+ Adhere to documentation standards as part of contract and performance monitoring
+ Record all clinical activities and clinical notes on Trust record keeping system (RiO)
+ Attend and contribute to team meetings.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., ELFT as an Employer
The Trust employs 6,000 people in a variety of full-time and part-time posts. The Trust is committed to making the Trust an excellent place to work and in order to improve quality of life for all we serve; the Trust has four strategic aims:
+ Improving population health outcomes
+ Improving the experience of care
+ Improving staff experience
+ Improving value - to increase our productivity, reduce waste and cut out variation in clinical practice.
Our Focus on Quality
Quality of care is the Trust's top priority. It is at the forefront of all that we do and is firmly embodied in our mission to provide the highest quality mental health and community care in England by 2020.
Being the very best requires continual improvement - always seeking to do things better. Sometimes it involves fundamental change in the way things are done, with everyone working together sharing the same passion and commitment. Our strategy takes a whole-organization approach to quality improvement, and is built on experience and best practice from healthcare organizations and systems across the globe.