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, alongside their existing service.
The post holder has primary responsibility for ensuring its smooth and effective implementation. This will involve considerable liaison with Primary Care Services, education and promotion of the treatment pathway. 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.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
* 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
* 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
* 27 days holiday rising to 33 days plus bank holidays
* 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.
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 the broader team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Professional qualification in one of the following:
* Practitioner Psychologist
* Psychological Therapist (e.g. CBT, Psychodynamic, etc.)
* Nursing Registered Mental Nurse (RMN)
* Mental Health OT
* Social Work
* Postgraduate training in CBT, IPT, Systemic Therapy, Psychodynamic therapy or Cognitive Analytic Therapy
Experience and Attainments
Essential
* Knowledge about and experience with working with eating disorders including psychological and behavioural factors.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups presenting problems which reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Experience and knowledge of working within the safeguarding framework and serious mental health problems.
* Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community.
Knowledge
Essential
* Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues, strategic frameworks and current guidelines regarding the range of presenting problems in CEDS.
* 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.
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and treatment.
* A highly specialist level of clinical skills.
* Ability to work with racially and culturally diverse communities.
* Ability to cope with verbal abuse and to recognise and diffuse potential physical abuse from service users.
Communication and People Skills
Essential
* Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
* Ability to communicate distressing and unwelcome information to service users and their families.
Organisational skills
Essential
* Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping.
* Ability to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals.
Other
Essential
* Satisfactory DBS clearance.
* Hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes.
Employer details
Employer name: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Roseanne House, Welwyn Garden City Parkway AL8 6HG
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