Mental Health Practitioner | Cambridgeshire and NHS Foundation Trust

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 currently looking to recruit a keen, enthusiastic and highly motivated Mental Health Practitioner (RMNs, Occupational Therapists, or social workers) to join our Adult Community Eating Disorder Service, based within the grounds of Addenbrookes Hospital, in the vibrant University City of Cambridge. It is a very exciting time to join our services, with plans in place to expand and develop our excellent service into a new model for providing care in the community.

As a key member of our team you will play a vital role in developing services including MANTRA, providing 1 to 1 interventions and group work along with the medical monitoring pathways. Previous experience in a leadership position is desirable for this post and you will be required to work collaboratively and independently within our service.

Developing and improving clinical care form the key elements of this post and you will be required to give expert advice and support to patients, their families/carers, the multidisciplinary team and other healthcare professionals. Working together with Matron, Consultants and Therapists you will help develop and shape the service. In return for your commitment and enthusiasm, working within the unique Adult eating Disorders Team will give you the opportunity to practice a full range of core leadership and MDT team skills.

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, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community.

These services include 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 look to 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. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based treatments for eating disorders including health promotion, physical monitoring and focus on wellbeing and safe maintenance for severe and enduring eating disorders.
• To participate in the setting of quality standards, including the monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy. Utilising the data available such as learning from incidences and complaints.
• To be responsible for the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision. To encourage recovery, discovery and independence, taking into account risk assessment and management.
• To be responsible for establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and the implementation of evidence based therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Councils professional code of conduct.
• To lead on the provision of social/therapeutic activities for service users.
• To be…