Specialty Doctor - Community Eating Disorder Psychiatry

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Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to provide a high level of service within a multidisciplinary team? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of our patients struggling with an eating disorder? Here at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we are looking for someone like you to join our Community Eating Disorder Psychiatry Service.

As a Result, You Will Have The Flexibility To Select a Suitable Base In One Of The Following Areas

This is a county-wide post which will see you cover a population of approximately 168,000 people.

• Bridgwater;
• Taunton;
• Minehead;
• Yeovil; or
• The Mendip Area
  

This post is full time (10 PAs) and you will be supported with working remotely for the majority of the week, although you will be expected to attend urgent clinical commitments should they arise. A full GMC registration is required for this post, although we may possibly consider the GMC sponsorship route as we are registered as a GMC sponsorship organisation for Psychiatry.

This is a new post resulting from the conversion of a part-time Consultant post into a county-wide Specialty Doctor post, and therefore represents a fantastic opportunity for you to contribute to a team that has rapidly developed over the last two years.

The Eating Disorder Service Comprises Four Eating Disorder Sub-teams, Each Strategically And Operationally Located Within The Four-sector Community Mental Health Services

• Mendip
• Somerset Coast
• South Somerset; and
• Taunton and Minehead CMHS.
  

Somerset Eating Disorder Services (EDSA) sits within the South West Provider Collaborative and although currently split into adult and child services, plans are afoot to move to an all-age service.

You will act in an advisory and expert role, helping to manage complex cases and provide support to the Eating Disorder Service by working closely with community adult psychiatrists. You will also have the exciting opportunity to work closely with the Medical Managers and Operational Managers to further develop the service. As well as providing treatment for patients with Anorexia and Bulimia, the service is also commissioned to provide treatment for Binge Eating Disorder.

You would be expected to offer approximately three hours of patient appointments per working day. For a full-time post holder, this would equate to 15 appointments per week including new assessments, medication reviews and reviews of physical/psychological risk.

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is the first NHS Trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We work with health and social care partners in Somerset to ensure that we deliver outstanding services that meet the needs of our population.

We are also delighted to announce that Somerset NHS Foundation Trust was named the ‘Mental Health Trust of the Year’ for 2021 in the widely acclaimed HSJ Awards. This follows a series of initiatives that we have introduced that have changed the way we develop and plan our mental health services – by listening to and involving the patients themselves.

Taunton is a beautiful area of the South West, located between areas of outstanding natural beauty. Somerset offers you the opportunity to live near some of the UKs most desirable locations; from the beautiful local beaches; to the vibrant cosmopolitan centres of Bristol, Bath and Exeter within easy reach.

The County town of Taunton boasts a wide range of local amenities including; an extensive range of shopping, a wide range of local restaurants, sporting and recreational facilities, and excellent educational facilities. Taunton’s nightlife offers a great atmosphere with cosy pubs and trendy bars.

Taunton provides access to the M5 motorway and a mainline intercity rail link with trains to London Paddington in less than 2 hours, and Bristol in 30 minutes.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Butterworth Job title: Consultant Psychiatrist Email address: michelle.butterworth@somersetft.nhs.uk