Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry: Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders

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The closing date is 19 February 2026

We are delighted to invite applications for an exciting full-time (10PA), Specialty Doctor post in the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) Outpatient Team. MCCAED is situated within the CAMHS Clinical Academic Group of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, the most comprehensive mental health service for children and young people in the country. This is one of three full-time Specialty Doctor posts within MCCAED.

This post would be suitable for a wide range of doctors, especially those with a background in eating disorders, paediatrics and / or community CAMHS. In addition to extensive opportunities to develop clinical knowledge, experience and skills in child and adolescent eating disorders, there are also excellent opportunities for quality improvement activities, research, teaching and training.

The postholder will have the following key areas of responsibility:

• Assessments and therapeutic work with children, adolescents, and parents
• Undertake physical examinations and order investigations as required
• Prescribe and monitor psychotropic medication
• Liaise with paediatric colleagues and general practitioners around the physical health care of patients
• Co-work with and consult to other colleagues within the team

Working for our organisation:
The post will be located on the Maudsley site, location of our Trust headquarters, which is less than 5 minutes from Denmark Hill train station (zone
2). In the next few months our clinic will be moving from the Michael Rutter Centre to a larger new purpose-built clinic with state-of-the-art facilities on the same site called the Pears Maudsley Centre.

About us MCCAED is a nationally recognized example of best practice in specialist outpatient eating disorders care for children and adolescents. The multidisciplinary team is large, well-established, and cohesive, and the service has three main components: a specialist outpatient service for children and adolescents from 7 local boroughs; a new clinic for children and adolescents with Avoidant Food Restrictive Intake Disorder (ARFID);

and a national intensive day service treatment programme for adolescents with Anorexia (ITP). MCCAED does not have an inpatient unit. Occasionally, our patients may have brief admissions on the paediatric ward at Kings College Hospital, which is across the road from our clinic at the Michael Rutter Centre. The admissions are usually less than 5 days and are normally for re-feeding and / or medical stabilisation.

Our admission rates to eating disorder units are very low. Over the last 10 years we tend to admit less than 1-2% of patients we assess each year.

Accountability:
The appointee will be professionally responsible to The Associate Medical Director via the Joint Head of Service, Dr Mima Simic, and Dr Elizabeth Tyrrell Bunge. The appointee will be managerially accountable to the Lead Clinician, Dr Sacha Guglani and the Service Manager for National & Specialist CAMHS, Donna Underwood, who work in partnership with the MCCAED Senior Clinicians to deliver this service.

Clinical Duties:
The postholder will assist in the assessment and management of children referred to MCCAED. The postholder will join colleagues and co-work cases where necessary; undertake physical examinations as required; order investigations e.g. blood results and ECGs, and check their results. They will also be responsible for prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medication. The postholder would be expected to have a small caseload of patients from the outpatient service.

These may be seen for monitoring of medication, mental state, psychiatric, or physical risk, or because the postholder is care-coordinating as the lead therapist. The postholder is not expected to have responsibilities for management, strategic service development, or business planning. However, if the postholder was interested in these areas then opportunities to develop and apply knowledge and skills in these areas could be explored.

Further responsibilities are described below.

Secretarial Support and Office Facilities:
This post will be based at The Michael Rutter Centre / Pears Maudsley Centre at the Maudsley Hospital, with offices above the clinical area. The MCCAED administrative team provide administrative and appropriate secretarial support to the team. The postholder will have access to own desk and computer facilities. The office will be shared with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

The service is networked to the Trust intranet with IT support from the central services of the trust. The trust is committed to the digital development of all staff and in line with the Digital Me programme to enable more flexible working the post holder will have his / her own Trust computer/ laptop, and, if…