CYP Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorder Service CYPMHS

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a specialist to deliver and evaluate eating disorder assessments for children and young people. You will provide therapeutic care plans, work within the multi-disciplinary team, and contribute to CYPMH development initiatives.

The role involves frontline clinical intervention, safeguarding responsibilities, and collaboration with families to manage risk and care planning. Induction starts monthly, with training to support new staff.

Responsibilities

• Undertake an initial CYPCEDS assessment of new referrals gathering relevant information from young person, parents/carers and from other agencies.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of therapeutic care to young people suffering from complex Eating Disorders and mental health difficulties.
• Undertake care planning and subsequent reviews in collaboration with a young person, their parents/carers.
• Undertake the screening of routine and urgent referrals and where necessary offering a frontline clinical intervention providing a clinical formulation and risk management plan.
• Collaborate with young people and their parents/carers with respect to care planning and the management of risk.
• Hold case management responsibilities for a caseload of young people with eating disorders.

Job description

Promote positive Mental Well-Being as well as Positive Mental Health.

Contribute to the Community Eating Disorder team assessing, delivering and evaluating the Eating Disorder needs of the young people accepted by the service.

Take responsibility for providing specialist eating disorder assessments to children & young people with complex health needs. In collaboration within team and child/parents/carers deliver a treatment plan that offers a range of therapeutic approaches appropriate to clinical need.

Undertake preventative aspects of service delivery such as offering consultation and expert advice to other professionals and participate in training programmes.

Work within CWP policies and service operational policies responsible, both autonomously and as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, for decisions in accepting, prioritising and assessing referrals to the service.

The post holder will be part of the team as it develops towards CYPMH.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake an initial CYPCEDS assessment of new referrals gathering relevant information from young person, parents/carers and from other agencies.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of therapeutic care to young people suffering from complex Eating Disorders and mental health difficulties.
• Undertake care planning and subsequent reviews in collaboration with a young person, their parents/carers.
• Undertake the screening of routine and urgent referrals and where necessary offering a frontline clinical intervention providing a clinical formulation and risk management plan.
• Collaborate with young people and their parents/carers with respect to care planning and the management of risk.
• Hold case management responsibilities for a caseload of young people with eating disorders.

9 Attend and participate in external multi-agency care planning and safeguarding meetings.

• Directly implement a variety of psychological, psychoeducational and therapeutic treatments including Family Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa .
• Identify and respond appropriately to safeguarding issues within procedures set down by Trust and Local Safeguarding Procedures.
• Participate in clinical consultations relating to complex cases.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cath Moore Job title: Team Manager /ED Therapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01244 393200

Paul Jones

Clinical Coordinator / Specialist Dietitian

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01244 393200

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