Clinical Lead for Adult Eating Disorders

Overview

Join NELFT as Clinical Lead for the London Community Eating Disorder Service. You bring senior psychology expertise in eating disorders and lead the ongoing development of the service and pathways. Working with MDTs, you will ensure delivery of evidence-based care and maintain high standards, while developing staff and engaging external partners. You will shape strategy to improve care for adults with eating disorders and their families, contributing to an ambitious, supportive culture.

Pay / Benefits

• High Cost Area Supplement 15%
• significant investment in development
• staff health and wellbeing activities
• award-winning equality and diversity initiatives
• supportive, just and compassionate culture
• induction and comprehensive onboarding

Responsibilities

• Manage own workload and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines, working both independently and as part of a team
• Provide clinical leadership and oversight with EDS senior colleagues to advance care and service provision
• Identify staff development needs and implement personal development plans and training
• Coordinate service developments and changes, minimizing disruption to delivery
• Promote integrated health professional working across sites and with MDT colleagues
• Lead and deliver initiatives that raise the level of care and service provision
• Set, implement and evaluate clear, measurable objectives with senior colleagues and pathway leads
• Ensure adherence to Trust protocols and procedures

Key requirements

• Post-graduate qualified psychologist fully registered with the appropriate regulatory body
• Experience in a specialist eating disorder service (adults or children and young people)
• Awareness of safeguarding procedures
• Extensive experience of clinical supervision in eating disorders services
• Computer literate
• Ability to understand national legislation and guidance related to children’s services
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act
• Desirable: complex project management experience
• Desirable: experience of managing major change in service provision
• Desirable: awareness of adult mental health commissioning and partnership working

• excellent communication
• strong organisational skills
• leadership and people management
• evidence-based treatments for adults with eating disorders
• advanced candidate supervision and risk assessment
• clinical governance and quality assurance

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