Community Outreach Worker - Eating Disorder

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in London is seeking a Community Outreach Worker specializing in eating disorders. The role involves supporting therapeutic care plans, facilitating activities, and ensuring patient safety through risk management. Successful candidates will work closely with service users in both clinic and home settings, promoting recovery and social inclusion.

Qualifications

• Support individual therapeutic care plans for adults with eating disorders.
• Facilitate collaborative activities with service users.
• Demonstrate risk awareness and manage ongoing risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred support in a planned manner.
• Assist service users with practical tasks and social inclusion.
• Conduct a minimum of 4 visits per shift.

Skills

Therapeutic Care

Risk Awareness

Collaborative Activities

Job description

Community Outreach Worker - Eating Disorder

Join to apply for the Community Outreach Worker - Eating Disorder role at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Community Outreach Worker - Eating Disorder

Join to apply for the Community Outreach Worker - Eating Disorder role at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The post holders will support and facilitate individual therapeutic care plans/therapeutic interventions for adults with eating disorders, that have been planned with or by qualified members of the team in conjunction with the Team’s Consultant and Managers. This role will support patients in a hospital clinic setting as well as their homes.

You will play a key role in developing and facilitating collaborative and therapeutic activities with service users. You will also provide person centred support in a planned and coordinated manner

To support personalised care planning within the multi-professional team, working closely with service users and their carers; to assist service users in their recovery goals which may include supporting them with practical/daily living tasks and engagement in social inclusion activities; working to a high standard and ensuring that as needs change care plans are updated.

To demonstrate risk awareness with respect to risk assessment and ongoing risk management, practising safely and according to individual service user needs and risk management plans. Working alongside qualified staff to anticipate the individual needs of service users, showing risk awareness and communicating to relevant parties as required

To be physically capable of fulfilling the role- undertaking a minimum of 4 visits per shift including accessing high-rise buildings and being able to respond rapidly to crises if required

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mary James Job title: Clinical Service Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02032283180

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Administrative

• Industries

  Mental Health Care

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