Community Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorders
Posted 5 hours 37 minutes ago by NHS
The West Suffolk Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service is a team based at Ickworth Drive in Bury St Edmunds. We are a diverse multidisciplinary team, dedicated to supporting children, young people and their families who are living with eating disorders and supporting them to recovery.
Your role would involve holding a caseload of young people with a diagnosable eating disorder, providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions for young people and their families, following evidence-based models to support your practice, undertaking assessments of new referrals, monitoring physical health and coordinating the care of young people on the caseload.
You will be part of a diverse and active MDT, supporting young people and their families through recovery. There is a strong emphasis on systemic work within this specialism, so skills in working with families as well as the young person is key.
Please apply if you are interested in joining our team and experiencing this specialist area of mental health.
Main duties of the jobHolding a caseload of children and young people and seeing them weekly for appointments.
Liaising with other professionals, both within the team and externally to coordinate care.
Completing assessments of new referrals to the service.
Attending MDT meetings for young people on your caseload
Working closely with families and other professionals to support the best outcome for young people.
Monitoring physical health and escalating care in line with MEED guidelines.
Completing allocated duty tasks on your allocated duty day.
Keeping comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical documentation
Working as part of an MDT
Benefits- Comprehensive in-house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days per annum based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- NHS discounts and many more.
It is our expectation that you will be a proactive, compassionate, and motivated individual with transferrable skills or with experience of working in the community with Children & Young People. Possessing an interest with Children & Young People with an Eating Disorder is essential.
Person Specification Qualifications- Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapist OR Social Worker with the relevant professional registration
- Recognised Leadership/Management training
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government initiative)
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
- Experience in the delivery of clinical interventionsExperience in delivering group based interventions
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.