Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and confident Nursing associate/Assistant Practitioner with the right skills to complement our small multidisciplinary team. 

You will work within our newly commissioned Day service and network closely with our existing community teams helping families and young people to thrive. As a new service there will be lots of opportunity for contributing to the new model of care for eating disorders in the region.

We will provide Supervision, reflective practice, training, and opportunities for professional development. We are passionate about improving standards and service user/carer experiences.

We would love to meet you if you have experience working with children and young people with eating disorders but also If you’re an experienced Practitioner who hasn’t worked in eating disorders before, you will have many transferable skills to bring to the role and our experienced team members can support you to grow and develop.

This role will initially be based at our Ida Darwin site in Fulbourn before relocating in approx. months (date TBC) to our Brookside Family Consultation Clinic in Cambridge.

To work as part of the specialist CAMHS Eating Disorder team to provide interventions, physical monitoring, and co-ordination of care for young people presenting with eating disorders and their families.

Intensively support families, children and young people within the Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa Model (FT-AN) 

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.

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