Eating Disorders Practitioner

This NHS provision has been developed to deliver a specialist community eating disorders service to children and young people aged 8 - 18 years across South Staffordshire. The post holder will help enable young people with their families in their recovery and will provide support to the team and wider systems, helping guide service development and delivery.

We are looking for an experienced CAMHS Eating Disorders Practitioner/ psychological therapist to provide and support to children, young people and their family'ses receiving treatment from the team, forming a key element of the treatment care pathway.

The post will be working as part of a highly experienced and close multi-disciplinary community team. The team is skilled, forward thinking, friendly and highly supportive delivering evidence-based treatments with young people and their families to provide the most effective treatment, which has influenced a high recovery rate. 100% of surveyed service users would recommend the service. We work using a phased family based approach with patients to empower them in taking ownership of their recovery. Working to promote recovery, build resilience, and empowerment are core.

**RESPONSIBLE FOR**:
1. Providing community based psychotherapeutic services to children & young people and their families who are referred to the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service
2. Working as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team for CAMHS Eating Disorders and in an integrated way with wider teams and services to meet the needs of the CYP & Families. The post holder will provide assessment and appropriate interventions to individuals with eating disorders. This should be in accordance with NICE guidance.
1. Offering advice, support and supervision to other healthcare professionals both internal and external to the team
2. To actively participate in the development of specialist pathway for CYP presenting with ARFID (avoidant Restrictive food Intake disorder).
1. To act as Care Co-ordinator for Eating Disorder Service clients, as appropriate
2. To spend the main proportion of time engaged in or related to clinical activity.
3. The number of sessions apportioned to clinical work, research, supervision, professional and team meetings, teaching or training and continuing professional development will be agreed with the Team Leader.

Working for MPFT
MPFT provides physical and mental health care, learning disability, and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. In addition, we provide services on a wider regional and national basis. We serve a population of 1.5 million and employ around 8,500 members of staff.

By joining MPFT you will become part of a diverse and inclusive team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:

- putting people at the heart of what we do
- empowering people to improve care and wellbeing
- delivering better health, better care in partnership

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals. All have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us
We will support your career development and progression. Membership of the excellent NHS pension scheme, generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave, pay and the option for flexible working. You will receive up to 27 days annual leave (increasing to 33 days) and the opportunity to
purchase additional annual leave.
We are also proud to have a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

The Service aspires to be innovative and dynamic. We have recently been awarded additional funding to further develop our services to become a comprehensive, leading-edge service. We hope to minimise obstacles in accessing treatment by working with partners and treating patients rapidly and safely. Our vision is to provide treatment pathways that include an early intervention pathway to support prevention, detection and access; a high-risk pathway that includes medical monitoring; a stability and support treatment pathway for patients with severe and enduring eating disorders and robust physical heath pathway. We will be offering intensive outreach community-based interventions and further developing more robust pathways with acute hospitals in order to facilitate timely safe access to medical wards for our patients. This will provide the opportunity for liaison with acute care teams.

The team covers the South Staffordshire (Stafford, Cannock, Burton, Lichfield, Tamworth, Seisdon peninsula) locality offering assessment and treatment to young people aged 8 - 18 registered with a South Staffordshire GP. The main base is in Stafford however we also have a base at Cross Street, Burton. The successful applicant will work within a specialist multidisciplinary team. If