Consultant Psychiatrist in Eating Disorders

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Consultant Psychiatrists working in an Eating Disorder Service have very specific roles: Psychiatric assessment of patients to establish Eating Disorder and another Psychiatric Psychopathology as relevant. To take a leading role in medical assessment of patients with Eating Disorders and offer those suitable advice by ordering necessary investigations and to liaise with Medical, Paediatric, GP and A&E colleagues to manage physical complications of the Eating Disorder patients. Offer Psychiatric and Medical Risk assessment and Management to Eating Disorder Patients. To Liaise with Children’s services, Social services, Education Authorities, GPs, Medical and Psychiatric Colleagues in CMHTs and families to offer comprehensive care to patients with Eating Disorders.
Help with implementation of National (NICE ED Guideline, MEED), Local guidelines and Pathways. Work with team colleagues to help the Eating Disorder teams achieve NHS England and Department of Health set Eating Disorder service related directives (i.e. Access and Waiting time directives). Work with team colleagues to help ED teams comply with use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS) and effective use of different ED specific tools for better screening and diagnosis of ED patients and also for effective monitoring of their progress with treatment.
Offer suitable therapeutic input to patients with Eating Disorders in different modalities such as CBT-E, Family Therapy and DBT. Offer supervision to ED team colleagues in complex case management of ED patients (e.g.- Patients on CPA). Offer management and monitor progress of Psychiatric co morbidities among ED patients such as Depression, Anxiety, OCD and ASD. Offer Psychopharmacological management to ED patients both licensed and off-licence as indicated in NICE guidelines and monitoring of such patients.
Knowledge and use of Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Children’s Act and other applicable legal frameworks in the management of patients with ED and to safeguard their needs. Write reports to help ED patients in relation to use of legal framework such as Mental Health Review Tribunals, as well as to support access to social care, work, training, education and accessing benefits. To involve service users and their carers in decision about their treatment. To work flexibly with other Consultant Psychiatrists to provide cover for annual leave, professional and study leave and short periods of sickness absence.
To participate in out of hours service, which currently provides telephone advice to the multi- disciplinary team assessing young people in crisis. This is subject to a rota

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