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Job overview

At AWP Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) we are keen to recruit a dynamic and experienced Senior Systemic Psychotherapist for our Lead Role in the Eating Disorders service. You will be working in the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service, with a range of stakeholders in a fast paced and changing environment.

You will work closely with our participation leads to ensure we keep the voice of young people, parents are carers at the heart of all that we do. 

The post holder will provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership to the Eating Disorder service by setting a clear vision and direction. You will be responsible for the strategic and operation delivery of the community Eating Disorder team and the home Intensive Treatment Team. 

AWP CAMHS offers a range of services alongside the Eating Disorder pathway and has had significant investment and transformation. The service is affiliated with Exeter University and offer training places and supervision for a number of courses.

When you join us you join an organisation that celebrates diversity, where your wellbeing is aided and where you will be supported on your career path to fulfil your potential.

In you are interested in a development opportunity with CAMHS we welcome an informal conversation prior to applying.

Main duties of the job

•  Provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership of the ED service by setting clear vision and direction
•  To lead an entirely autonomous and systemic area of responsibility, Specialist Eating Disorder CAMHS pathway for young people with Eating Disorders often alongside severe and complex mental health difficulties
• To ensure the service offers a highly specialist and evidence based triage, assessment and treatment for young people with an eating disorder across a range of complex systems and partner agencies  
• To offer an entirely autonomous highly specialist assessments and treatment of young people in the community and alongside local adolescent unit
• To provide an advanced and specialist treatment role in the NICE recommended interventions for under 18’s with an Eating Disorder
• To undertake management/ leadership tasks as delegated by the manager including caseload, supervision, appraisals and service development
• To undertake relevant research, teaching and lecturing in the specialist area of eating disorders
• To support service development, including the use of clinical audit
• To understand and analyse complex data for eating disorders alongside key performance indicators

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.  We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.