Highly Specialist Eating Disorder Practitioner

3 months ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We recruit people based on their values and believe that their lived experience is an advantage. We seek out potential, not perfection, and this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team if you need a form, leaflet or other information in any of the following formats: Braille, large print, other formats such as Word, or coloured paper version.Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

Main duties of the job

An exciting development opportunity to work in a new and emerging Adult Eating Disorders Service across West Yorkshire as a Highly Specialist Eating Disorder Practitioner (Band 7)

Main duties of the Highly Specialist Eating Disorder Practitioner will include a combination of clinical and leadership working.

Clinical workYou will work closely with the Link-ED multidisciplinary team and lead on triaging all new referrals into the service. Alongside training and developing the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) through training sessions and workshops you will also support service users by increasing their knowledge and understanding of disordered eating through psychoeducation groups, 1:1 drop in clinics and signposting to 3rd sector organisations. You will attend appropriate service user meetings within the CMHTs to provide additional assistance supporting patient centre care.

Leadership workThe Link-ED Adult Eating Disorders Service is new and emerging, you will be involved with all aspects of service development including staff training, service user experience, service evaluation, interpreting clinical data and outcome measures. You will provide clinical supervision within the Link-ED team and support the Clinical Team Manager by attending leadership meetings.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is a temporary full-time post for 12 months (maternity cover) working within the Link-ED Adult Eating Disorder Service, across West Yorkshire. We have recently been given the opportunity to grow our MDT which has enabled this leadership role to be created. The successful candidate will be working closely alongside the Clinical Team Manager for the service, developing and embedding the newly developed clinical model across the 5 geographical areas we cover (Leeds, Wakefield, Calderdale, Kirklees and Bradford). As a service we support service users who have disordered eating secondary to their primary mental health issue, these include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder. You will have some experience of working with individuals with an eating disorder to provide advice and consultation for CMHTs whilst also facilitating psychoeducation groups and drop in clinics for service users. There will be strong support for research and development over the course of the 12 will work closely with your Eating Disorder peers within Link-ED and the wider CONNECT eating disorder teams, to support smooth transitions of care across the teams for service post holder must hold a professional healthcare registration.

A car driver is essential to this post. Please confirm you have a licence and access to a car in your application.

Communication prior to interview is encouraged.

For more information please contact: Rachael Gardner- Clinical Team Manager, Email-

Kurt Maloney- Operations Manager, Email-

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant healthcare professional degree

Experience

Essential

Experience working in Eating Disorders Service Development experience Leadership experience.

Car Driver

Essential

Full licence with access to a car

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