The closing date is 03 April 2025
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum + 5% High Cost Allowance
Job summary
Our friendly and growing team is ready to welcome a new team member who will share our passion for improving access and the quality of care for people with eating disorders. This post covers the service in Mid and West Essex, although the post holder would be expected to travel at times to other areas, base being negotiable as either the Derwent Centre or Northgate.
We are now looking to recruit a dynamic, creative, highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who has a demonstrable interest and experience of working with clients suffering with an eating disorder. You will receive regular professional and management supervision – as well as providing this to others – and will be supported to develop skills in this specialist area.
Main duties of the job
- To gate-keep referrals into the Adult Eating Disorders Service liaising with referrers and providing advice and support as needed.
- To ensure the effective assessment, care planning and review of patient care and treatment in line with the EPUT CPA policy and procedure.
- To liaise with the provider collaborative regarding specialist out of area eating disorder placements and inpatient providers, when EPUT service users are admitted and to provide a link function for local services and carers.
- To provide highly specialist evidence based interventions for clients with Eating Disorders, drawing on a wide range of theoretical frameworks and treatment modalities
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or equivalent professional qualification
- Qualification at degree level or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- Evidence of training and using an evidence-based NICE guideline intervention in clinical practice for Eating Disorders. (e.g SSCM, MANTRA, FBT)
Desirable
- Management qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- In-depth knowledge of community mental health services
- In-depth knowledge of wider policy and service issues relating to mental health
- Extensive knowledge of the assessment and treatment of eating disorders
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues and child protection requirements and how these apply to the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).