Job overview

The Royal Free CAMHS Eating Disorder Service is looking for a B8a Systemic Family Therapist to join their extensive multi-disciplinary team. We are a large eating disorders service, covering 5 boroughs in North Central London. The service is fortunate in its ability to provide specialist treatment for young people diagnosed with a variety of Eating Disorders, with varying severity, via community outpatient, intensive day patient, and short-term medical inpatient admission treatment. Our family-based treatment ethos places systemic working at the heart of eating disorder treatment for young people, and the successful candidate will join an already well-established team of Systemic Family Therapists. They will also benefit from close working relationships with other core disciplines such as Specialist Nursing, Dietetics, Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy, and may also work across fellow community services. This makes for a uniquely rich and diverse clinical experience, with extensive opportunity for growth and development. 

We are committed to our professional development and have regular CPD sessions with our Systemic Family Therapy colleagues in the Royal Free CAMHS neuro-developmental team. The post holder will also have the opportunity to support our Family Therapy clinic, provide Systemic Supervision to colleagues, and deliver a psycho-education programme for parents. They will receive regular group and individual supervision. 

Main duties of the job

Role requirements:

• Conducting Eating Disorder assessments and adopting a caseload delivering systemically informed evidence-based treatments, including FT AN, FT BN and FBT ARFID, which will involve working creatively with young people and their families.
• Delivering Systemic Family Therapy where necessary to enhance treatment outcomes.
• Partaking in MDT (multi-disciplinary team) discussions with systemic perspectives, via our MDT meetings, supervision groups and systemic consultations to help the development of systemically informed formulations.
• Care coordinating and supporting treatment requirements for patients throughout their recovery journey. This role offers the opportunity to work with systems in crisis, potentially via our Intensive Service or our Paediatric ward, through to stability and recovery as a community outpatient.
• Coordinating, developing and delivering our regular psycho-education workshop to parents (The Family Support Package).  
• The post holder will also be required to take on the role of Duty Clinician, for a minimum of once a month for triaging new referrals and coordinating responses to matters of clinical urgency. Full training will be given.

Prior experience in eating disorders is highly desirable, but additional training will be given for the right candidate. 

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.