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Flintshire and Wrexham (East) CAMHS are keen to recruit an experienced Senior Practitioner to lead our East CAMHS Eating Disorder Pathway. This is a full-time, permanent post. This leadership role is an exciting new service development.

East CAMHS offers a 0-18 service to children, young people and families. We provide early intervention and prevention, unscheduled care and a broad range of NICE recommended and other evidence based interventions.

Clinicians involved in eating disorder work across East CAMHS are a dynamic and committed multidisciplinary team of Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Family Therapy, CAMHS Practitioners and Dietetics. We have excellent links with Paediatrics as part of our ‘hub and spoke’ model.

This role involves leading East CAMHS Eating Disorder Pathway and ensuring the provision of a highly specialist service to young people and their families. The successful candidate will work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of clinical practice within the pathway.

The Pathway Lead will manage referrals and assessments and all service provision. They will provide assessments and deliver evidence based interventions with children, young people and families where there is an eating disorder / disordered eating present, alongside Care Co-Ordination. They will have a key role in East CAMHS weekly eating disorder multidisciplinary meetings and will lead on service audit, evaluation and development and outcome measurement. Consultation, supervision, training and multi-agency working will form part of this leadership role.

Appropriate training will be provided to support the successful candidate in undertaking this role and regular supervision will be received.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.

Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.