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This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled disordered eating practitioner to work as part of the Specialist Weight Management Service in Trafford. This could be an individual with a nursing, occupational therapy or mental health background who has experience of working with clients with disordered eating or obesity. The successful candidate will work with people who experience disordered eating while living with excess weight, delivering high quality compassionate care.
The service is a Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management MDT that includes nurse therapists, a physiotherapist and dietitians. The team delivers lifestyle programmes for those with a BMI over 40kg/m2 including group education sessions, a pathway for disordered eating and bariatric surgery education. We are committed to providing a service that is compassionate, and client focused. Mindfulness and mindful eating are an important part of our approach, and the service has psychology supervision to inform our pathways and support our work in disordered eating.
As part of the team, you will be able to contribute to service development, staff training, evaluation and audit. CPD is valued and you will be supported to develop your skills and knowledge in this exciting specialism that is at the heart of key priorities for public health and the NHS.
Programmes are mainly clinic based with some group delivery and home visits. Currently, face to face or virtual contacts are offered to clients.
To provide appropriate therapy for disordered eating for a specific client caseload, that may including mindfulness, mindful eating and a compassion-based approach.
Manage a caseload of clients who may be complex and have multiple needs including medical, psychological and social.
To assess client’s physical health in line with service protocols.Undertake practice sensitive to the needs of clients, carers and relatives from multi-cultural backgrounds.
Use facilitation skills to deliver a programme of group education sessions with clients.
Develop specialist programmes of care in lead area supported by Senior Practitioner and using current best practice, patient feedback and innovation.
Carry out home visits when required.
Travel to a variety of community venues across Trafford, carrying equipment when needed.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: niamh joy Job title: Senior Practitioner Email address: niamh.joy@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01615496120
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