Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
CAMHS Eating Disorder Practitioner
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About the Role
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.
Key Requirements
We are seeking to appoint a 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.
The postholder will work in clinic settings and as part of our home support pathway.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
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Opportunities for Development
This post gives the opportunity to develop skills in this area, working within an experienced team. The post-holder will be offered the opportunity for training in family therapy for eating disorders and continued professional development.
Our service has a strong commitment to professional development through individual supervision, training, appraisal and an ethos of close multi-disciplinary working.
Job Details
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.
Equality and Diversity
We are committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applicants from all communities to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve.
DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
About the Employer
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 fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.
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To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under-represented groups including people with long-term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
Further Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: June Everitt
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: june.everitt@cpft.nhs.uk
Penny Hazell – Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Lead, CAMHS Eating Disorder Pathway
Telephone: 01480 445281
Ella Powter – Home Support Pathway Lead, CAMHS Eating Disorder Pathway
Telephone: 01480 445281
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