Community Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorders

Job overview

The West Suffolk Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service is a team based at Ickworth Drive in Bury St Edmunds. We are a diverse multidisciplinary team, dedicated to supporting children, young people and their families who are living with eating disorders and supporting them to recovery.

Your role would involve holding a caseload of young people with a diagnosable eating disorder, providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions for young people and their families, following evidence-based models to support your practice, undertaking assessments of new referrals, monitoring physical health and coordinating the care of young people on the caseload.

You will be part of a diverse and active MDT, supporting young people and their families through recovery. There is a strong emphasis on systemic work within this specialism, so skills in working with families as well as the young person is key.

Please apply if you are interested in joining our team and experiencing this specialist area of mental health.

Main duties of the job

• Holding a caseload of children and young people and seeing them weekly for appointments.
• Liaising with other professionals, both within the team and externally to coordinate care.
• Completing assessments of new referrals to the service.
• Attending MDT meetings for young people on your caseload
• Working closely with families and other professionals to support the best outcome for young people.
• Monitoring physical health and escalating care in line with MEED guidelines.
• Completing allocated duty tasks on your allocated duty day.
• Keeping comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical documentation
• Working as part of an MDT

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is our expectation that you will be a proactive, compassionate, and motivated individual  with transferrable skills or with experience of working in the community with Children & Young People. Possessing an interest with Children & Young People with an Eating Disorder is essential.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

If you would like to have a further information discussion about this role, please contact Aya Wingate, Interim Community Team Manager, [email protected]