Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
We welcome applications from mental health nurses, clinical psychologists, social workers, CBT therapists, and other qualified professional staff for the role of senior practitioner within SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service
SET CAMHS Eating Disorder service are looking to recruit 2 full time qualified professionals from nursing, social work, psychology, CBT psychotherapy to join the Eating Disorder service working across Essex. SET CAMHS Eating Disorder service offer evidence based treatment (FT-AN/CBT-E) working within iThrive model. We are seeking candidates with experience of working with Eating disorder, managing risk and managing a caseload of more complex presentations. The successful candidate will also have experience of supervising and supporting colleagues at band 6.
The Band 7 role sits within the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) to take a lead on urgent and high-risk assessments, to support the team in formulating risk plans and to be able to provide a range of NICE recommended and evidence based treatments.
The role will support the senior leadership team in monitoring quality of
interventions and processes through effective supervision.
Main duties of the job
1. To complete assessments of children and young people’s to identify if there are eating disorder.
2. To complete risk and safety plans, care planning including CPA processes post discharge from Inpatient care.
3. To provide evidence based treatments individually (FT-AN/CBT-E) with a trauma informed approach.
4. To provide treatment and interventions for children and young people with additional neurodevelopmental needs and co-morbid mental health issues.
5. To provide supervision to band 6 staff
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification when completing your application
We welcome newly qualified, or applications from about to be qualified, Psychologists as well as those with previous experience who are passionate and motivated to work with young people and families. We pride ourselves on working within a strong and supportive multi-disciplinary team with opportunities for learning, development, and progression.
Professional registrations accepted:
RCN, BABCP, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP.
Locality Teams in CAMHS
The aim of our new CAMHS is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.
The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and co-production with children and young people
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
6. Qualificantion in a Core profession (Social Worker, Mental Health Nursing, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology)
7. To have registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body ( HCPC, NMC, UKCP, BABCP)
8. Experience in a relevant NHS setting or similar with Young people with mental health presentations.
Desirable criteria
9. 2- 3 years post qualifying experience
10. Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.
Experience
Essential criteria
11. Experience of working with complex and high risk mental health presentations in children and young people.
12. Experience of providing evidence based mental health interventions to children and young people including neurodiversity.
13. Experience of supervising staff providing mental health treatments to children and young people
Desirable criteria
14. Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum
15. Experience of managing teams
Skills
Essential criteria
16. Multi-Agency working experience
17. Assessment, formulation risk management and safety planning
18. Evidenced based treatments DBT, CBT, Trauma informed.
19. Knowledge of relevant legislation. (Childrens Act, Mental Health Act, mental capacity)
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
20. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
21. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
22. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
23. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.