Mental Health Practitioner for Eating Disorders

**Mental Health Practitioner for Eating Disorders**:**Band 6**:
**Main area**

Mental Health Practitioner
**Grade**

Band 6
**Contract**

Permanent
**Hours**

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**

201-22-173

**Site**

Truro Health Park
**Town**

Truro
**Salary**

£32,306 - £39,027 Per annum
**Salary period**

Yearly
**Closing**

Today at 23:59

**Thank you for your interest in working for **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.**
- Our Trust objectives are:_
- Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
- Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
- Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
- Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
- Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Cornwall is now embarking on its three-year transformation of its core community mental health services; we are looking for someone to work with us to assist the development of the eating disorders service. This is an interesting time and one of innovation when joining our adult mental health services in Cornwall, a time when we are focused on developing an outstanding service.

We are working towards a complete transformation of services in Cornwall in line with national plans to create integrated and collaborative health and social care systems. Our mission is to provide a safe and empowering environment steeped in a caring, culture of acceptance, curiosity, and empathy.

We are building a team of highly motivated people who are keen to influence change and culture within our adult eating disorders service in Cornwall. These newly created posts offer you the opportunity to join us in its development and expansion. We are an organisation who will recognise & value your clinical expertise, training, and experience, with a genuine commitment to your career development and continued learning. We will enable you to use your clinical skills, encourage you to develop your ideas to shape our compassionate mental health services.

This post will be part of the FREED (First episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) initiative in Cornwall and alongside other colleagues involved in this pathway we aim to offer timely high quality evidence based interventions to support recovery from eating disorders.

We are looking for an experienced mental health professional (e.g Psychiatric Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker) with knowledge and experience of working with Eating Disorders to join our team.
- To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:_
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
- Leadership and Management development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring opportunities
- A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
- Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
- A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
- Individual professional development programmes
- Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:_
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
- Free DBS checks where required
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Childcare vouchers

We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

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The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take sig