Home Treatment Support Worker/nursing Associate

Our Children and Young People’s CAMHS Eating Disorder Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Home Treatment Support Worker or Nursing Associate to work with children and young people with eating disorders, and their families.
Providing interventions in the family home, in clinic and via online platforms as part of the service’s new Home Treatment offer. This is an exciting opportunity to work in this county-wide service using a range of models (including family based approaches, CBT, CAT and IPT) and to play a key role in supporting young people to remain in the community for treatment and avoid or delay admission to Tier 4 specialist units.
The post holders will also support the transitions of young people out of inpatient units. You will be supported by qualified Band 6 within the home treatment part of the service but also be a key part of the wider multi
- disciplinary CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.
You will work closely with the team’s range of professionals to provide specialist interventions, physical observations and anorexia-nervosa-focused family therapy support for eating disorders in the community. Use your knowledge and experience of eating disorders, gained in community or inpatient settings, to support families to implement the team’s treatment recommendations with intensive meal support and monitoring. Foster helping relationships with parents/carers and young people.
Part of the role will involve liaison with other CAMHS specialist teams, wider trust teams and with our outside partners like education and social care. With the team, supporting effective admission and discharge from local acute trusts and specialist Tier 4 provision when necessary.
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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
The trust has made significant investments in agile and virtual working methods to support clinicians in teams with large geographic areas. A work base of Huntingdon, Peterborough or Cambridge can be offered.
To support the families, young people and children open to the CAMHS ED service with the implementation of FT-AN recommendations around diet, eating and exercise to aid recovery under the direction of the senior clinician. These interventions can occur in the child or young person’s (CYP) home or at a CPFT clinic or via virtual technology.
Deliver meal support, supervision, role modelling, problem solving and practical assistance to parents and carers as part of the agreed management plan.
To provide pyscho-education on eating disorders and support with a range of practical, health and social issues to families and CYP, under the supervision of a senior clinician of the team.
To undertake physical observations and medical monitoring procedures where appropriately trained and supervised.
Work with CYP to facilitate access and engagement in age appropriate community-based activities including schools and colleges.
Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring CYP progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the individual’s care.
With the senior clinician, intensively support families to support CYP with eating: a) whilst on an acute paediatric ward, b) to enable recovery at home in preference to admission, and c) to support discharge from a Tier 4 unit.
To attend meetings internal and external to the Trust when deemed appropriate by the senior clinician involved or CAMHS ED Manager.
Maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service user’s case notes as necessary.
Attend and participate in team/care plan review meetings as appropriate.
Develop good working relationships with other organisations that can help individuals achieve their goals, including colleges, schools, other training providers and voluntary agencies, the inpatient units and community services.