Job summary
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is excited to advertise a permanent role for a Band 7 Mental Health Liaison Clinical lead for Eating Disorders working with the Bury and Rochdale GM Mental Health liaison team. The introduction of this new role supports the wider development of the GM Liaison team into an all age service and to support patients with eating disorders and disordered eating.
The Clinical Lead will work alongside the two band 7 team leaders in providing a specialist role for assessing patients, educating staff from Mental health and acute settings, and developing new ways of working across the borough for patients with eating difficulties.
The Clinical Lead role promotes an improved access to evidence-based interventions for people with eating difficulties and mental health challenges admitted to the mental health wards and the medical wards in Bury and Rochdale.
Main duties of the job
o To ensure high quality mental health and eating disorder assessment of service users and families referred to the mental health liaison serviceo To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of service users mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy
o To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and treatment of service users with eating problems whose problemso To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide specialist advice to other professionals on aspects of risk assessment and management of eating disorderso Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback, as required or directed.o To provide consultation and training on a wide range of service users emotional health, well-being and eating disorder issues to professionals, from a range of services including Adult Mental Health Services, Education Services and Northern Care alliance staff.
About us
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Qualifications and experience to Degree Level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work or occupational therapy
- Further short courses and experience to Masters level
essential
Essential
- Substantial experience of working with adults, children, adolescents and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties including family relationship problems, including experience of working with young people with eating disorders
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Significant experience working in a multi-agency context
- Theoretical approach and understanding to child and adult mental health and development
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of up to date knowledge of eating disorders and its application to adults, children and young people
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and government policy relating to mental health
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing ,complex, technical and sensitive information to children, young people and families/carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative Organisational, time management, report writing and record keeping skills
- Willingness to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends if required to meet the demands of the service
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Ability to be self reflective whilst working with service users , in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
Desirable
- Masters Degree
- Additional post graduate qualifications relevant to child and adult mental health
- Non-medical Prescribing.
- Working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Qualifications and experience to Degree Level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work or occupational therapy
- Further short courses and experience to Masters level
essential
Essential
- Substantial experience of working with adults, children, adolescents and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties including family relationship problems, including experience of working with young people with eating disorders
- Experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members
- Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
- Significant experience working in a multi-agency context
- Theoretical approach and understanding to child and adult mental health and development
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of up to date knowledge of eating disorders and its application to adults, children and young people
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and government policy relating to mental health
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing ,complex, technical and sensitive information to children, young people and families/carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative Organisational, time management, report writing and record keeping skills
- Willingness to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends if required to meet the demands of the service
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Ability to be self reflective whilst working with service users , in own personal and professional development and in supervision.
Desirable
- Masters Degree
- Additional post graduate qualifications relevant to child and adult mental health
- Non-medical Prescribing.
- Working in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
