Mental Health Practitioner

Overview

Are you passionate about patients receiving the best care? Are you looking for a specialist career pathway? Do you want to be influential in leading and developing a new model for the future? Then you may be the person we are looking for to be involved in shaping our services. We are recruiting a keen, enthusiastic and highly motivated Mental Health Practitioner (RMN, Occupational Therapist, or social worker) to join our Adult Community Eating Disorder Service, based within the grounds of Addenbrookes Hospital, in the vibrant University City of Cambridge.

• Develop and improve clinical care as a key element of the post, providing expert advice and support to patients, their families/carers, the multidisciplinary team and other healthcare professionals.
• Work with the Matron, Consultants and Therapists to help develop and shape the service.
• Practice a full range of core leadership and MDT team skills within the Adult Eating Disorders Team.
• Play a vital role in developing services including MANTRA, providing 1-to-1 interventions and group work, along with medical monitoring pathways.
• Collaborate and, where appropriate, work independently within the service.

• Qualified Mental Health Practitioner (RMN, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker).
• Previous leadership experience is desirable.
• Experience working in community Eating Disorder services is implied by the role.
• Based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services in inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.