Community Mental Health Practitioner - Eating Disorders

The West Suffolk Children and Young People's Eating Disorder Service is a team based at Ickworth Drive in Bury St Edmunds. We are a diverse multidisciplinary team, dedicated to supporting children, young people and their families who are living with eating disorders and supporting them to recovery. Your role would involve holding a caseload of young people with a diagnosable eating disorder, providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions for young people and their families, following evidence-based models to support your practice, undertaking assessments of new referrals, monitoring physical health and coordinating the care of young people on the caseload. You will be part of a diverse and active MDT, supporting young people and their families through recovery. There is a strong emphasis on systemic work within this specialism, so skills in working with families as well as the young person is key. Please apply if you are interested in joining our team and experiencing this specialist area of mental health.Main duties of the job Holding a caseload of children and young people and seeing them weekly for appointments. Liaising with other professionals, both within the team and externally to coordinate care. Completing assessments of new referrals to the service. Attending MDT meetings for young people on your caseload Working closely with families and other professionals to support the best outcome for young people. Monitoring physical health and escalating care in line with MEED guidelines. Completing allocated duty tasks on your allocated duty day. Keeping comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical documentation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive. Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about. Benefits included with this role are:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• gym membership
• NHS discounts and many more.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.