Specialty Doctor in Eating Disorders ARFID Pathway | East London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	East London NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, E14 8HQ
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	22 Nov 2026

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Summary

The East London Community Eating Disorders Service for Children and Young People (CEDS-CYP) is a dynamic and exciting multidisciplinary team including Therapies (family therapy, clinical psychology, assistant psychology), Medical (psychiatry and paediatrics), Nursing (mental health and paediatric nursing), Dietetics, Support Workers and Administrative and Operational staff. Our team covers the East London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney and operates a Hub and Spoke model, working closely with local acute Trusts, particularly Paediatrics.

The ARFID Pathway is a dedicated, community-based specialist pathway within CEDS-CYP for children and young people aged 8–18 with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) or suspected ARFID. It delivers early, evidence-based, multidisciplinary assessment, consultation and brief intervention (a structured, time-limited 6–8 session model incorporating FBT-ARFID and CBT-AR approaches), supported by MDT formulation. The pathway addresses the gap between paediatric and mental health services, reduces fragmentation of care and prevents avoidable escalation to acute hospital or Tier 4 services. It provides equitable access for complex presentations, including children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, sensory sensitivities and physical health comorbidities.

The Specialty Doctor will be an important part of the ARFID Pathway within CEDS-CYP. This is an interesting and exciting job offering regular joint and collaborative working with other members of the team to assess and treat children and young people with ARFID and their families. The post holder will provide high-quality, evidence-based mental and physical health assessments and contribute to treatment, including medical monitoring where required. This will include professional and practice development to ensure high-quality, client-centred care.

The post holder will work closely with the Consultant Paediatrician for the pathway and the wider CEDS-CYP consultant psychiatry team, as well as dietetic, nursing and psychology colleagues, and will gain valuable liaison skills through working with community and acute paediatric teams. The post holder will also participate in the CEDS-CYP duty rota, as agreed with the supervising consultant.

There is also the opportunity to be involved in audit, service evaluation, QI projects and research according to personal developmental goals. If interested, there is the opportunity to take on a therapy case under supervision, for example in systemic family therapy, family-based treatment or CBT.

ELFT as an Employer

The Trust employs 6,000 people in a variety of full-time and part-time posts. The Trust is committed to making the Trust an excellent place to work and in order to improve quality of life for all we serve; the Trust has four strategic aims:

• Improving population health outcomes

• Improving the experience of care

• Improving staff experience

• Improving value – to increase our productivity, reduce waste and cut out variation in clinical practice.

Our Focus on Quality

Quality of care is the Trust’s top priority. It is at the forefront of all that we do and is firmly embodied in our mission to provide the highest quality mental health and community care in England by 2020.

Being the very best requires continual improvement – always seeking to do things better. Sometimes it involves fundamental change in the way things are done, with everyone working together sharing the same passion and commitment. Our strategy takes a whole-organization approach to quality improvement, and is built on experience and best practice from healthcare organizations and systems across the globe.

These posts are based in East London. A timetable of commitments will be agreed with the supervising consultant and will include mental health, physical health and therapeutic aspects to the role.

The post holder will be accountable to the ARFID Pathway Lead and the Clinical Team Leads for EL CEDS-CYP, and will be formally supervised by a Consultant Psychiatrist within CEDS-CYP [named supervisor to be confirmed]. Supervision will be offered once a week for an hour, the time to be agreed at the start of the placement. Further informal supervision, teaching and support is available from the wider CEDS-CYP consultant psychiatry and paediatric team as needed.

The central base for this post is Emanuel Miller Centre, Tower Hamlets

This advert closes on Friday 6 Nov 2026

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