Job overview
Our Children and Young People’s CAMHS Eating Disorder Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Mental Health Practitioner to work with children and young people with eating disorders, and their families. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary eating disorders service for young people and their families, providing evidence-based treatment approaches in clinics across the Trust. We are a compassionate, supportive team, committed to empowering young people and their families so that they can keep well in the community.
The CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is a well-established service, working alongside staff in our CPFT Community CAMHS teams and working closely with our local day programme and local acute paediatric services. We are seeking to appoint a skilled CAMHS Practitioner with a strong interest in working with young people with eating disorders and their families and a commitment to delivering specialist assessments and manualised interventions such as family therapy for eating disorders and CBT-E.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be offered the opportunity for training in family therapy for eating disorders and continued professional development within a well-established multi-disciplinary service. Our service has a strong commitment to professional development through individual supervision, training, appraisal and an ethos of close multi-disciplinary working.
The post is a permanent role and full-time hours. We will also consider part time hours. The applicant will need to be able to travel to sites across the county.
We are committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applicants from all communities to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
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