Band 6 Specialist Eating Disorder Practitioner

6 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Community Eating Disorders Practitioner will work across the specialist Eating Disorders Community Mental Health Team, providing clinical expertise and psychological interventions to patients as part of their recovery.

The staff member will manage a caseload of eating disordered patients across the county, assessing, planning care, managing risks and providing nutritional and psychological support, treatment interventions and advice to patients.

Providing information and training to other healthcare and mental health professionals, relatives, carers and other interested groups.

Assisting the senior leadership team with the development of the service.
- Assess clients referred to the service. This may be at mental health sites across the county, in the client’s own home, or in hospital if the client is an inpatient.
- Ensure that each patient in their care receives an individual assessment including a risk assessment, with regularly updated care plan which is formulated with the service user.
- Assess and manage risk, appropriate to each individual patient.
- Provide nutritional advice, information, and support to clients.
- Provide psychological interventions and support to patients with regard to their eating disorder.
- Liaise with and refer patients to other healthcare and mental health professionals as appropriate and according to their individual needs.
- Liaise with the Clinical Manager and Mult
- Disciplinary Team as appropriate and arrange for more urgent care/treatment interventions should this be required.
- Plan and run group treatment sessions with clients.
- Provide support and information to relatives and carers
- Maintain comprehensive client records.
- Write reports on clients and the service for GPs and other professions, as required.
- Participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team and Multi-agency care meetings.
- Provide clinical supervision to mental health professionals, as appropriate.

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.



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