Mental Health Practitioner - CAMHS community eating disorders

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Barking; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider requires a Specialist Nurse or Mental Health Practitioner for the Eating Disorder Service in Barking. This role involves managing clinical risks, developing care plans, and collaborating with a dedicated team. Candidates should have relevant nursing or social work qualifications and experience with complex mental health needs. The position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development and employee well-being initiatives.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults who have complex mental health needs.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Understanding of the Care Act and mental capacity act.

Responsibilities

• Develop individualised care plans for patients.
• Manage clinical risks effectively by performing specific investigations.
• Collaborate with colleagues to provide specialist care.

Skills

Robust assessment of mental health presentation and risk profiling

Well-developed interpersonal skills

Ability to work under pressure

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills

Education

RMN, RGN, RNLD, OT or Social Work registration

Teaching qualification or other job related post-registration qualification

NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

Job description

Job overview

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video.

B6 Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorder (CYP)

We are looking for a Specialist Nurse or Mental Health Practitioner (OT or social worker) to join an exciting branch of the well established and innovative Lifespan Eating Disorder Service in North East London NHS Foundation Trust. This post will be part of the HIVE team, an Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) pathway working with children and young people and their family and carers. There will be strong links and close working with the existing Eating Disorder team, with management and the clinical lead coming from the existing service. This is a great opportunity to join our highly skilled, dedicated and friendly team.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit; . Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Skills

Perform and interpret specific investigations, such as blood pressure and ECGs, in order to manage the patient’s clinical risk effectively.

Ensure all patients have individualised care plans and that these are reviewed at appropriate intervals.

Develop clinical practice and procedures that best support the well being of adult service users with eating disorders in the community.

Work with colleagues to ensure that specialist, professional, skilled clinical care is provided for patients and that this is adapted to meet their individual needs.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 per annum pro rata).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details on this vacancy.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
• RMN, RGN, RNLD, OT or Social Work. Registration with relevant professional body
• Teaching qualification or other specific job related post-registration qualification (eg Mentoring and Enabling Learning in Practice, ENB-998 or equivalent)
• Evidence of CPD

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working with adults who have complex mental health needs
• Working with adults dual diagnosis
• Working in an acute environment
• To have experience in working/liaising with multi-disciplinary teams, internal and external agencies in the provision of care
• To have experience of assessing, planning and initiate care
• Ability to work under pressure, quickly and effectively, making timely clinical decisions in conjunction with the MDT
• Anility to work both independently and as part of the team

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Understanding the Care Act and its application
• Understanding of contemporary evidence based ‘best practice
• Understanding of the mental capacity act

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of NICE CQC and DoH guidance
• Awareness of The 1983 Mental Health Act, related legal guidance and ethical practice

Skills

Essential criteria

• Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, especially the ability to engage with service users and significant others in busy/high pressure environments
• Robust assessment of mental health presentation and risk profiling
• Ability to facilitate positive MDT working relationships across all service areas
• Ability to maintain confidentiality where appropriate
• Ability to work closely with the families, friends and significant others of service users in assessing need and planning intervention
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles of equal opportunities in service delivery
• Ability to formulate clear and concise clinical records and be able to disseminate information appropriately and to relevant agencies

Other

Essential criteria

• To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
• To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
• To be flexible, supportive and if required to take a new role within NELFT appropriate to knowledge, education and skills, as required

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.