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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Attend the weekly clinical MDT meeting as well as taking part in MDT discussions around high-risk clients.
• Liaise with acute hospitals and specialist eating disorders units, psychiatry colleagues in local Mental Health teams, and with general practice.
• Provide formulation of complex cases with medical and psychiatric needs, and for SET-CAMHS CYP transitions as indicated.
• Provide comprehensive assessment and management of complex and co-morbid presentations, including eating disorder and non-eating disorder psychopathology, g. those with significant additional Mental Health or Physical Health needs, including the prescription and titration of medications, or to closely advise the patient’s GP where necessary.
• Lead in the monitoring and treatment of the physical complications of eating disorders in collaboration with other health professionals, including general practitioners, acute sector colleagues and dieticians. To liaise with appropriate professionals regarding patient’s blood investigations and refer to appropriate services for further management of complications, if any.
• Supervise the team in charge of the medical monitoring and management of high risk patients (ordering investigations, interpreting results and liaising with GPs and acute specialisms where required).
• Provide Psychiatric input to the development of appropriate pathways in and out of acute care settings for ED patients.
• Maintain an active involvement in the treatment of patients who are admitted in medical/psychiatric wards whose primary diagnosis is an Eating Disorder and the patient is open to Essex CAEDS, working closely with the other mental health teams from the Trust for those service users who require joint care.
• Assess and manage risk including vulnerability, suicide risk, risks to health and safety and risk of harm to others.
• Contribute to the co-production and update of care plans with service users and their loved ones as appropriate, using an approved Patient Reported Outcome Measure.
• Liaise with and provide feedback to families and carers.
• Work closely with consultant colleagues to provide office hours cover and annual, study or special leave cover across all the eating disorder services delivered by EPUT.
• Write reports for patients in education, training, work and/or accessing benefits.
• Participate in multidisciplinary discussions regarding the most appropriate treatment settings for patients, including community or intensive day care treatment, or referral to a regional specialist inpatient unit.

• Ensure that they are in good medical standing for CPD, that their practice is up-to-date and in line with the GMC’s Good Medical Practice Guidelines and best practice guidelines and able to evidence this for the purposes of annual appraisal.
• To actively promote the eating disorder services core values of evidence-based treatment, close multidisciplinary team working, shared care with other services and effective risk management.
• Work with operational and clinical colleagues in managing the overall clinical performance of the team.
• Lead and participate in audit and research.
• To be involved in strategic planning and development.
• Contribute to the direction of the clinical management of eating disorders within the team, following the principles of evidence-based medicine.
• Promote the involvement of all stakeholders - including patients, carers, primary care, acute hospitals, universities, etc. - in service feedback and improvement. This will include participation in Regional ED network meetings in relation to a new care model for eating disorder inpatient units and other regional meetings.
• Work in accordance with Trust and service policies and guidelines.
• Liaise with clinical and managerial leaders in commissioning and providing services with the aim of improving and developing services, in liaison with MDT colleagues.
• Provide specialist input to contract negotiations.