CAMHS Eating Disorder Healthcare Assistant

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CAMHS Eating Disorder Healthcare Assistant

The closing date is 12 February 2026

Calderdale and Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has an exciting opportunity to recruit to a post within the Eating Disorder team and will include the developing ARFID pathway.

These posts are part of a service development to provide additional support to both the Eating Disorder Team and embed an ARFID pathway within it to ensure the needs of these children, young people and their families are met.

By identifying children and young people earlier and providing the right support, we can work with families to provide a dedicated treatment plan to be able to prevent escalation and reduce long term difficulties and decrease the pressures in the ED and acute services.

We are looking for someone highly motivated and enthusiastic who has an interest in Eating Disorders and ARFID. We are a community team who works weekdays and cover the Calderdale and Kirklees area.

Support is offered both from the team and wider service. The service supports professional development. We take pride in working together to maintain a supportive and friendly workplace that enables our staff to thrive and influence positive change to the lives of the young people and families who have the support of our service.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

The successful candidate will be part of an Eating Disorder pathway and will support the team in developing and driving this pathway within the Eating Disorders service. This will include supporting service development based on best practice guidelines and existing research and evidence. Further requirements can be found within the person specification and job description. You will deliver high quality interventions following care planning, treatment and regular reviews (CPA) from the qualified practitioners in your team for children and young people who meet the criteria of the pathway with a diagnosis/presentation of both Eating Disorders and ARFID.

This could include daily meal support for young people, offering support within groups for both parents and young people or offering packages of intervention as agreed with the qualified staff. Someone who can engage with people well and is able to work well within a team. You would receive supervision and line management regularly to ensure you feel well supported and able to deliver the agreed work to a high standard.

Visa sponsorship under the Health and Care Worker visa route can only be considered if the prorated salary meets the minimum threshold of £25,000, as required by the UK Visas and Immigration. For Band 3 roles, only full-time positions at the top of the pay scale meet this threshold. Therefore sponsorship may not be possible depending on salary increment placement and working hours.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we’re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder will:

Under the supervision/direction of registered health care professionals/associate practitioner, within a delegated framework for agreed tasks, seek support as and when necessary, in the delivery of psychological and physical care to a defined group of people.

As part of a healthcare team, provide the highest standards of safe and compassionate planned care to people that maximises their recovery and rehabilitation potential.

Develop and maintain meaningful therapeutic relationships with people. Adopt a polite, positive and empathetic approach,…