Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorders Service

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great flexible working opportunities

Lease car scheme and Home Electronics

Generous annual leave and pension

Extensive staff health and well-being

Job summary

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner for the Eating Disorder Team. This Band 6 post is a fixed term maternity cover to September 2027, with base at Alder Hey and Blossom House, Alder Park, Waterloo.

You will contribute to the clinical work of the team, undertake assessments, provide intervention, and manage your own caseload with regular clinical supervision.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with eating disorders is beneficial.
• Undertake assessments and provide intervention and support to children, young people and their families.
• Regular clinical supervision will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and interventions for children/young people with eating disorders.
• Take on full case management responsibilities for your workload.
• Work across Alder Hey and community bases with supervision from consultants.

Skills

Experience with eating disorders in C&

Job description

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

Mental Health Practitioners - Eating Disorder Team

Band 6

Fixed term Maternity Cover to September 2027

This post holder will work across two sites: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Blossom House, Alder Park, Waterloo

Interviews planned for the afternoon of Friday 11th Sept

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This is an exciting opportunity for individuals with an interest and experience in working with young people with an eating disorder and/or ARFID. The successful applicant will provide a substantial contribution to the clinical work of the team and will hold full case management responsibility for their workload. Regular clinical supervision will be provided.

The main base for this post will be at Alder Hey, but appointments from community bases across Liverpool and Sefton will be required. Experience working with children and young people with an eating disorder will be beneficial. In addition to undertaking assessments and providing intervention and support to children, young people and their families, the post holder will also undertake physical monitoring under the guidance of our Consultant Paediatricians.

The post holders must be able to demonstrate a positive attitude which encompasses our Trust Values of

Compassion– We see you and act.

Courage– We speak up and step forward.

Commitment– We keep our promises.

Community– We lift each other up.

If you are enthusiastic and confident with a friendly and outgoing manner, and a focus on providing the best possible service to patients we would like to hear from you.

Working for our organisation

About the team: The Eating Disorder Team (EDYs) provide support and treatment for children and young people in Liverpool and Sefton with an eating disorder and/or ARFIDS, as well as their parents/carers and professionals involved in their care.

This is a multidisciplinary team including Consultant Psychiatrist and Consultant Paediatricians, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy, CBT and SFP trained staff, Nursing, Support Worker, Assistant Practitioner and Assistant Psychology. The team is based on site at Alder Hey, but offer appointments throughout the community footprint.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, please take a look at the job description and person specification attachments.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect your skills.

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