Robyn Bosworth

Full time role working across both community eating disorder team (assessing and treating Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and EDNOS) and community ARFID team (assessing and treating ARFID). Duties included:

• Delivering psychoeducation ARFID parent/carer group.
• Delivering ARFID children's group supporting food exposure and interoceptive awareness.
• Conducting initial and extended assessments for both teams.
• Co-developing patient formulations to inform their individualised treatment plan.
• Delivering 1-1 interventions including food chaining, anxiety management, emotional regulation and sleep interventions.
• Co-developing and implementing routine outcome measure protocols.
• Contributing to development of the service model through developing new manuals and pathways.
• Conducting service evaluations to be published in academic journals.
• Maintaining confidential records adhering to GDPR regulations.

• Freelance role writing blogs summarising recently published research articles for The Mental Elf website. Details of one of these blogs can be found here: https://www.nationalelfservice.net/author/robyn-bosworth/

Part time role working on multiple regional service development and research projects across East of England. Duties included:

• Conducting literature reviews and developing “easy to read” summary resources that could disseminated to clinicians and commissioners across East of England.
• Evaluating commissioned regional programmes.
• Presenting at local, regional and national webinars/meetings.
• Co-leading rollout of eating disorder prevention programme (The Body Project) and evaluating this programme.
• Developing strategic resources to support best practice across variety of mental health presentations.
• Assisting senior psychologists in research tasks, contributing to academic publications.

Part time role managing the East of England sites of ADaPT, a national NIHR funded research trial investigating the implementation of the assessment and treatment of PTSD in care experienced young people. Duties included:

• Conducting comprehensive literature reviews for project groundwork.
• Assisting in designing appropriate study materials.
• Coordinating participant recruitment efforts to ensure study sample size was met.
• Obtaining informed consent from participants (young people and mental health clinicians), using principles of Gillick Competence.
• Co-ordinating data collection through focus groups, individual interviews and ethnographic methodologies.
• Presenting findings at local team meetings and national steering group meetings, to support ongoing implementation.
• Developing resources, guidance and training to clinicians to support implementation.
• Presenting key findings at national conferences to promote knowledge sharing.
• Preparing necessary documentation for research audits to maintain standards of practice.

Voluntary position supporting individuals with an eating disorder and their loved ones. Duties included:

• Supporting eating disorder patients and their loved ones via emails & web chats.
• Creating action plans for service users.
• Supporting service users under stress by providing advice and signposting relevant services.
• Managing safeguarding risks.
• Facilitating support groups and research focus groups.

Full time member of eating behaviour lab during masters degree. Duties included:

• Attending weekly lab meetings.
• Reviewing research being conducted within the lab.
• Conducting comprehensive literature reviews for project groundwork.
• Collecting quantitative data for a longitudinal research study.
• Planning and conducting data analysis.
• Writing up research findings to be used in academic publications.
• Presenting key findings at local conferences to promote knowledge sharing.

Part time role conducting research on behalf of student union to enhance student experience. Duties included:

• Facilitating focus groups to understand student experience.
• Creating & disseminating surveys to students.
• Analysing & presenting data (written, graphical) to senior university personnel.
• Planning & running information sessions on student wellbeing.

Work experience placement. Duties included:

• Delivering interventions (CBT, TEACCH techniques, PROSCIG) through group and individual therapeutic contact.
• Using Makaton to manage communication difficulties.
• Co-developing and integrating new exercises into the programme.
• Observing and reporting patient progress to senior therapists, contributing to treatment plans.