# Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorders (OT/SW/RMN) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner-eating-disorders-otswrmn/41a7a5cb-119f-4b2a-9e15-5c06b6f5b000 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-practitioner-eating-disorders-otswrmn/41a7a5cb-119f-4b2a-9e15-5c06b6f5b000.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: Part-time - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-12T15:20:56.462Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Melksham/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/CAMHS/CAMHS-v8339797 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8339797?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker interested in joining our Eating Disorders Service? With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances. You will deliver a high quality, comprehensive service for children, young people and their families who have an Eating Disorder. This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team - we have a strong ethos around staff well-being - where clinical Supervision and CPD are priorities for the service. We offer robust clinical and caseload supervision to facilitate a supportive working environment. ### Main duties of the job As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner you will be responsible for initial assessments, delivery and evaluation of care and providing psycho-educational advice and practical support to young people and their families by drawing on evidence- based interventions and using a collaborative, recovery focused approaches. Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role. You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other team members and participate in the team service development and evaluation. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Demonstratable knowledge of IT systems (such as MS System) - Excellent time and diary management ### Experience **Essential** - Caseload management/complex conditions & cases - Experience of care coordination/lead professional - Evidence based, reflective practice & clinical reasoning skills in assessment & treatment - Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties - Experience of working with Eating disorders ### Qualification **Essential** - RMN/Social Worker/OT/other relevant professional qualification - Registered to practice in the UK ### Professional & Personal Skills **Essential** - Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff - Organisational skills for own & others workload - Excellent personal skills to form good working relationships - Excellent organisational skills - Excellent written and verbal communications ## Documents - [teds jd (pdf, 208.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10663800) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.