# Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Bodmin
- **Region:** South West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22T09:12:32.143Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/To_be_confirmed/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8150560
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8150560?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are excited to be able to go out to advert for a Senior Eating Disorders Practitioner to join our expanding children and young people’s eating disorder (CYPEDS) community team. We value ourselves in being a close, supportive, and containing team that is passionate about providing high quality care, and look forward to welcoming you to be part of it.

The role involves leading a systemic team delivering FT-AN/BN (family based treatment for anorexia or bulimia), and so applicants are required to have completed systemic training to intermediate level. The successful applicant will receive support and supervision from a qualified family therapist.

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:
- Cornwall Foundation Trust
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

### Main duties of the job

You will be a key core practitioner within CYPEDS, using leadership skills to support and develop service delivery. You will be innovative and facilitate evidence-based practice delivery for children, young people and their families across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Delivering all aspects of expert professional management and care to children and young people presenting with eating disorders and providing highly specialist advice. You will be responsible for maintaining a caseload, using your specialist skills, from referral to discharge, conducting routine and high priority assessments and interventions as appropriate and exercising autonomy. The post holder will lead and be responsible for delivering family based treatment clinics (under the supervision of a qualified family therapist). You will be heavily involved in the support, training and supervision of more junior members of staff. You will be liaising and providing advice, information and consultation to colleagues and other agencies as well as undertaking service governance activity, including research and audit as appropriate.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’

## Person Specification

### Skills and Aptitude

**Essential**

- To provide and receive supervision appropriately
- Extensive experience of working with children and adolescents with physical health or emotional difficulties
- Experience and confident in the delivery of presentation and training delivery in own specialist area

**Desirable**

- Qualification in teaching and assessing learners – desirable.

### Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

**Essential**

- Current professional registration – NMC, HCPC
- Professional qualification
- Post graduate qualification to Master’s level in relevant clinical specialism or equivalent experience relevant to specialist area
- Substantial experience working within Eating Disorders
- Evidence of training and experience in the delivery of evidenced – based interventions for children, young people and their families

## Documents

- [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977)
- [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833)
- [job description (pdf, 744.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10450239)
- [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834)
- [functional requirements form (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10450241)
- [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976)

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