Assistant Practitioner

Islettechnologies; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Practitioner to join a new Intensive Home Treatment Team focused on supporting adults with Eating Disorders. This role involves providing essential clinical skills, including psychoeducation and meal support, to individuals in their homes and virtually. The team aims to enhance recovery through a collaborative approach with families and carers. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to promoting mental health and well-being, where your contributions will make a real difference in the lives of others. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing for both face-to-face and virtual interactions.

Qualifications

• Experience with Mental Health presentations including Eating Disorders.
• Ability to support individuals and their families effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide treatment and interventions to adults with Eating Disorders.
• Support families with psychoeducation and skills around mealtimes.

Skills

Communication Skills

Creative Thinking

Psychoeducation

Meal Preparation

Education

Level 3 QCF in Health and Social Care

Care Certificate

Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Assistant Practitioner to join the new Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adult's with an Eating Disorder. This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promoting recovery from an Eating Disorder.

Your clinical skills will involve working individuals with a severe and complex eating disorder providing interventions such as psycho education, meal preparation and meal support which will be overseen by the team manager. You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to think creatively in not only supporting the individual but also their family and carers. The role will require commuting to individuals home's and will be a hybrid model of a mixture of face to face clinical contact's alongside some virtual contacts.

Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF

Salary: £24625.00 to £29114.00

Date posted: 4th April 2025

Closing date: 8th May 2025

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Assistant Practitioner to join the new Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adult's with an Eating Disorder. This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promoting recovery from an Eating Disorder.

Your clinical skills will involve working individuals with a severe and complex eating disorder providing interventions such as psycho education, meal preparation and meal support which will be overseen by the team manager. You will need to have excellent communication skills and be able to think creatively in not only supporting the individual but also their family and carers. The role will require commuting to individuals home's and will be a hybrid model of a mixture of face to face clinical contact's alongside some virtual contacts.

We also offer trainee opportunities for candidates who do not hold the relevant qualification but have relevant experience.

Main duties of the job

• You will be working as part of a small team of MDT professionals providing treatment and interventions to adults with an Eating Disorder in their homes and virtually.
• Interventions will include practical support such as meal preparation and dining alongside psychological exploration around feelings after eating and distress management.
• Supporting family and carers with psycho education and upskilling support skills around mealtimes and managing distress.
• Interprofessional working and liaising with all professionals within the Eating Disorder Pathway, community and inpatient.
• Active involvement and development of individual care plans, risk assessments and review of care and treatment.
  
  

About Us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

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Job responsibilities

For more information on the Job Description and Person Specification please see attached documentation.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with a range of individuals with Mental Health presentations including Eating Disorders.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of working with individuals with a Eating Disorder
  
  

Qualifications

Essential

• Hold or Obtain the Care Certificate within the first 3 months of employment
• Level 3 QCF in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.
• If a Foundation Degree or equivalent qualification is not already obtained, to complete within 2 years of commencing employment (On a trainee contract and salary)
  
  

Desirable

• Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care or qualification to diploma level or equivalent
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Contact Information

Service Manager Eating Disorders

Katy Kemp

01392208263

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