Outreach Worker - Enhance Treatment Team EDU B4 | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS mental health service provider in London is looking for staff to support individuals with eating disorders. The role involves facilitating therapeutic activities and providing personal support within a hospital and home setting. Candidates should have experience in healthcare and the ability to work collaboratively. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in patients' recovery journeys.

Qualifications

• Experience in a healthcare or therapeutic setting.
• Ability to support individuals with eating disorders.
• Skill in facilitating group activities.

Responsibilities

• Support personalised care planning within the team.
• Demonstrate risk awareness during assessments.
• Facilitate individual and group activity programmes.
• Provide support for service users in meal preparation.

Skills

Risk awareness

Physical fitness

Collaborative skills

Person centred support

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• To coordinate, facilitate and carry out individual and group activity programmes with service users. Care will be planned under the supervision of senior members of the Team.
• Creating positive working relationships with local services and local activity providers covered by the Trust, as well as creating and compiling resources within the service.
• To provide support to families and carers, including assisting other colleagues in the safe running of the service.
• To provide support for service users around eating and meal preparation in their own home and within the local community.
• To attend and contribute to clinical team meetings and handovers across the Liaison and emergency department services.
• You will support senior team members with welcoming, conducting baseline observations following referrals.

About our Trust

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.

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025