About this role
Job summary
Our Children and Young People's CAMHS Eating Disorder Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Mental Health Practitioner to work with children and young people with eating disorders, and their families. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary eating disorders service for young people and their families, providing evidence-based treatment approaches in clinics across the Trust. We are a compassionate, supportive team, committed to empowering young people and their families so that they can keep well in the community.
The CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is a well-established service, working alongside staff in our CPFT Community CAMHS teams and working closely with our local day programme and local acute paediatric services. We are seeking to appoint a skilled CAMHS Practitioner with a strong interest in working with young people with eating disorders and their families and a commitment to delivering specialist assessments and manualised interventions such as family therapy for eating disorders and CBT-E.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be offered the opportunity for training in family therapy for eating disorders and continued professional development within a well-established multi-disciplinary service. Our service has a strong commitment to professional development through individual supervision, training, appraisal and an ethos of close multi-disciplinary working.
The post is a permanent role and full-time hours. We will also consider part time hours. The applicant will need to be able to travel to sites across the county.
We are committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applicants from all communities to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve
About us
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 andempowering 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.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. To work as an integral member of the Specialist Eating Disorder Team as part of CAMHS, providing comprehensive mental health assessments to clients and their families and providing a range of direct work and evidence-based therapeutic intervention. 2. To have the ability to utilize specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young persons mental health needs. 3. To participate in the planning and delivery of evidence-based therapeutic programmes, family-based interventions, multi-family groups and parenting support programmes as the service develops. 4. To work with Young People up until the age of 18 years, ensuring a continuation of mental health services, between local CAMHS provision and adult mental health provision. 5. To provide speedy assessment and intervention in partnership with other local Childrens Services. 6. To work towards early intervention and prevention for young people with significant mental health difficulties and emerging eating disorders. 7. Through an evidence based clinical approach, reduce the mental and physical health risks to young people, and help them to enhance their mental health. 8. Primary emphasis will be given to direct clinical work, but an important part of the role will be to provide consultation and liaison, training and support to other Children and Young Peoples professionals. 9. To participate in the teams use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across the pathway and wider CAMHS. 10. To educate and involve children and young people and family/carers, in their care/support plan and provide opportunities or service users to contribute to assessment and the development of service provision.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications Essential
A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following at graduate level: nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or within a psychological therapy.
Desirable
Training in an evidence-based therapeutic intervention recommended by NICE Guidelines relevant to CAMHS and eating disorder clients, i.e. Systemic Therapy CBT.
Experience Essential
Post-qualification experience in assessment and treatment with Child and Adolescent families. Experience of Multidisciplinary and multi-agency working Experience working with families
Desirable
Experience of assessing young people with eating disorders within a community setting Experience of group work Experience of teaching groups of professionals.
Skills & Abilities Essential
Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Willingness and ability to participate as independent practitioner in assessments
Desirable
Ability to assess and treat children and young people and families with mental health and psychological difficulties.
Knowledge & Understanding Essential
Knowledge and understanding of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Sound knowledge of the Trust's and Local Safeguarding policy and procedures
Other Essential
Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address Newtown Centre
Nursery Road
Huntingdon
PE29 3RJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)