# Specialist Practitioner Eating Disorders

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Powys Teaching Health Board.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Powys Teaching Health Board
- **Town:** Bronllys
- **Region:** West Wales
- **Country:** Wales
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £40,559 - £48,841 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07T12:12:58.618Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Powys/Brecon/Powys_Teaching_Health_Board/Mental_Health_Services/Mental_Health_Services-v7973611
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7973611?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://pthb.nhs.wales

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting  opportunity as arisen for a specialist eating practitioner to join the All Age Eating Disorder team.  This post will work with both the Community Mental Health Team and CAMHS and will based throughout Powys.

### Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 specialist eating disorder practitioner to join the all age eating disorder team. You will be required to work with both children, young people and adults who have been referred with an eating disorder.

You will be required to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and to provide specialist assessment, treatment and care to a caseload of people with an eating disorder.

The successful candidate will be required to provide care to service users within the legal frameworks of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010, the Social Services and Well- Being (Wales) Act 2014 and the Mental Health Act (1983)

You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, flexible in approach, able to work autonomously.

Effective communication and engagement skills are fundamental to this role, as well as a current evidence-based knowledge and a commitment to working with individuals adopting a recovery approach and a commitment to working within a trauma informed model of care as well as have a good understanding of Eating disorder models and Nice Guidelines

In return for your skills and expertise we can offer you a variety of rewarding challenges, continued training and development and the opportunity to work within a friendly and supportive team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Sound understanding of community and multidisciplinary work.
- Experience of working within a community setting and with Severely Mentally ill clients
- Evidence of supervising and developing junior staff
- Abilty to meet travel requirments for the post

### Qualification

**Essential**

- Registered Mental Health Professional and Registered with the relevant Professional Body
- Evidence of continous proffesional develpoment

**Desirable**

- WARRN
- CBT qualifications/Psycho-Social Interventions/qualification
- Venupuncture

### Skills and abilities

**Essential**

- Excellent organisational skills
- Person centred and non judgmental
- Excellent assessment skills
- Ability to engage with service users

**Desirable**

- Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn.

### Knowledge and understanding

**Essential**

- Principles of recovery
- Effectiv skills and knowledge of psycho social interventions
- Clinical supervision
- Communication skills
- Advanced risk assessment skills

**Desirable**

- IT skills and knowledge
- Skills to promote service user involvement

## Documents

- [jdps english (pdf, 296.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427262)
- [privacy notice (pdf, 808.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2375)
- [oh form - ig ffurflen (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10256025)
- [flexible working policy (pdf, 396.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10255784)
- [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 278.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2850)
- [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 624.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1727)

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