Senior CAMHS Practitioner / Pathway Lead for Eating Disorders inWrexham/Mancot inWrexham/Mancot PUBLISHED
TUE 31 DEC 2024
In this leadership role, the Pathway Lead will participate in weekly multidisciplinary meetings, oversee service audits and evaluations, and engage in training, consultation, and multi-agency collaboration. The candidate will work autonomously while adhering to professional guidelines, and the role offers opportunities for ongoing training and regular supervision. Proficiency in Welsh is desirable, but applications from both Welsh and English speakers are welcome.
Flintshire and Wrexham (East) CAMHS are keen to recruit an experienced Senior Practitioner to lead our East CAMHS Eating Disorder Pathway. This is a full-time, permanent post. This leadership role is an exciting new service development.
East CAMHS offers a 0-18 service to children, young people and families. We provide early intervention and prevention, unscheduled care and a broad range of NICE recommended and other evidence based interventions.
Clinicians involved in eating disorder work across East CAMHS are a dynamic and committed multidisciplinary team of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Family Therapy, CAMHS Practitioners and Dietetics. We have excellent links with Paediatrics as part of our 'hub and spoke' model.
This role involves leading East CAMHS Eating Disorder Pathway and ensuring the provision of a highly specialist service to young people and their families. The successful candidate will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of clinical practice within the pathway.
The Pathway Lead will manage referrals and assessments and all service provision. They will provide assessments and deliver evidence based interventions with children, young people and families where there is an eating disorder / disordered eating present, alongside Care Co-Ordination. They will have a key role in East CAMHS weekly eating disorder multidisciplinary meetings and will lead on service audit, evaluation and development and outcome measurement. Consultation, supervision, training and multi-agency working will form part of this leadership role.
Appropriate training will be provided to support the successful candidate in undertaking this role and regular supervision will be received.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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