Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health Eating DisordersNHS

Job summary

The Trust provides both specialist inpatient and community eating disorder services and has both Adults and CAMHS elements to this.

This post is based in the adult eating disorder inpatient unit at Birch Ward, West Park Hospital. The unit hosts the North East & North Cumbria Regional eating disorder beds alongside extra beds for extra-contractual referrals. This forms the Northern Centre for Eating Disorders (NCED).

The NCEDs purpose is to provide specialist tertiary eating disorder inpatient services for all ages both within the North East Specialist Services Regional Commissioning area and nationally to those requiring high intensity inpatient care who are either too high risk for community management or such approaches have deemed to have failed. Birch ward service provision is for patients aged 18 and over. The dedicated multi-disciplinary teams in the NCED provide comprehensive multi-domain - physical, nutritional, psychological, social and occupational - individualised treatment approaches for patients suffering from -

Anorexia Nervosa

Severe and complex Bulimia Nervosa

Atypical Eating Disorders

Co-morbid physical conditions with eating disorders

Birch Ward is a 10 bedded unit at West Park Hospital. The average length of stay for patients on the ward is 6 months.

On average, 3 patients are detained under MHA.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to work full time within the inpatient eating disorder service, and will be expected to work closely with the community consultant in eating disorder service.

You will be expected to provide committed, proactive and responsive clinical expertise, working with other staff to provide an assessment and treatment service for those individuals admitted to Birch Ward. You will take a lead for the medical management aspects of clinical care of eating disorders including appropriate pharmacological and MHA interventions.

You will provide direct patient clinical care working closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team, being fully involved with the CPA process and attend relevant team meetings. Working closely with the ward manager, service manager and Associate Medical Director to plan and develop the service in line with the Trust Integrated Business Plan, to ensure the quality and development of the unit.

Job description

Please see the attached job description for further information on this post.

The job description has yet to be approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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About us

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m 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).