Are you an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with experience in Eating Disorders?
Would you like to work for an outstanding Trust?
We have a unique band 7 role within our friendly Eating Disorders Service for a FREED specialist (First episode and Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders).
We are looking for practitioners with a qualification in psychotherapy, psychology, nursing or social work who are able to deliver evidence-based therapy for eating disorders.
About FREED
The FREED initiative is an early intervention designed for young people with a first episode primary eating disorder of up to three years duration. FREED provides rapid access to treatment and tailors treatment to the specific needs of young people. The aim is to reduce the duration of an untreated eating disorder and promote recovery.
The Hertfordshire Adult Eating Disorders Service is currently consolidating its expansion to enable delivery of FREED (First episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) alongside their existing service.
Main duties of the job
* Manage all referrals accessing the service via the FREED pathway, including initial triage and subsequent allocation.
* Lead a regular 'FREED Huddle' in the team, bringing together all clinicians involved in the FREED service delivery.
* Assess patients referred to the service & co-produce appropriate treatment plans.
* Use appropriate evidence-based treatment such as MANTRA, CBT-E, SSCM etc.
* Manage and oversee management and care of service users with highly complex needs.
* Produce accurate and timely documentation, conducting and managing the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation.
* Conduct and supervise assessment and observation to ensure appropriate and timely feedback to the team.
* Conduct, supervise and oversee risk assessments of the individual highly complex cases and the potential hazards in the service user's environment.
In return, we can offer you:
* Leadership and management training opportunities.
* 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata).
* 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable).
* One of the UK's best pension schemes.
* Free Pilates lessons.
* Comprehensive health and wellbeing services.
* Special leave for family and personal reasons.
* NHS Car Lease Scheme.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
The post holder manages all referrals for this pathway and offers initial triage, as well as providing a clinical service to people experiencing an eating disorder.
The post holder is based with the expanding Eating Disorders Service for Adults in Hertfordshire. The primary focus for the post holder is in working with clients accessing treatment through the FREED pathway, though the post holder will also contribute to, and is part of, the broader team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional qualification in nursing e.g. Registered Mental Nurse (RMN), Mental Health OT or Social Work.
Desirable
* Masters qualification in relevant area of practice.
* Postgraduate certificate level/practitioner level training in IPT, Systemic Therapy, Psychodynamic therapy or Cognitive Analytic Therapy.
Experience and Attainments
Essential
* Experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post.
* Evidence of post-registration experience as a mental health clinician.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups presenting problems which reflect the full range of clinical severity, including a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Experience of working within an eating disorders service.
* Experience and knowledge of working with Child Protection and serious mental health problems.
* Experience of teaching and training.
* Experience of peer supervision and supervising colleagues in the multidisciplinary team.
* Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community.
Desirable
* Experience of therapeutic practice in different cultural contexts.
* Record of publication in professional journals.
* Postgraduate clinical and therapeutic qualification related to the community.
* Qualification in teaching and training.
Knowledge
Essential
* Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues, strategic frameworks and current guidelines regarding the range of presenting problems in CEDS.
* Knowledge of recent developments in mental health provision for children.
* Sufficient knowledge of other therapeutic modalities to engage with colleagues in their work with service users within the FREED pathway.
* Knowledge of adult development and serious mental health problems.
* Knowledge of current developments in research with service user group.
* Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Ability to use supervision effectively.
* Understanding of equality of opportunity and related policies and procedures.
Desirable
* Knowledge of parenting literature and its application.
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, families, and groups.
* A highly specialist level of clinical skills.
* Ability to work with racially and culturally diverse communities in a wide variety of contexts.
* Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situations including staff and organisational problems.
* Ability to cope with verbal abuse and to recognise and diffuse potential physical abuse from service users.
* Ability to apply clinical governance as appropriate.
* Ability to endure long periods of concentration for extended service user therapy sessions.
Desirable
* Substantial IT skills.
Communication and People Skills
Essential
* Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level.
* Ability to communicate distressing and unwelcome information to service users and their families.
* Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
* Skills in liaising with other agencies and providing consultation.
* Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
Organisational skills
Essential
* Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping.
* Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals in accordance with professional, ethical guidelines and Trust policies.
Other
Essential
* Satisfactory DBS clearance.
* Hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Roseanne House, Welwyn Garden City Parkway AL8 6HG
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