Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Band 6 Eating Disorder Practitioner

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Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or other suitably qualified healthcare professional to come and work with us as a member of our Adult Eating Disorders Outpatient team.

The post is based at Forest Grange Outpatients, Bennion Centre, Leicester.

We are a highly specialised team providing psychological interventions for outpatients suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder.

Our team supports adults who have an eating disorder, providing individual care plans for recovery through evidence-based interventions and strong therapeutic relationships.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team helps your patients achieve their individual recovery goals.

The care provided can be both physical & psychological as our patients may need help with working on weight restoration, reducing compensatory behaviours or regularising their eating and need support with managing the mental challenges this can bring.

Experience of working with people with an eating disorder will be a particular strength for the right candidate. However, we are able to offer opportunities for with those with limited experience in a developmental role.

You will be experienced in offering individual or group psychotherapy for patients and will have worked in a mental health setting, either inpatient, outpatient or community, to deliver this treatment.

The Band 6 Therapist role is challenging but intensely rewarding.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Band 6 Therapist involves managing your own caseloads, providing assessments, care plans, risk assessments and reviews as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

A good understanding of some of the physical and psychological risks experienced by our patients will be helpful and you will be supported with this alongside training and development opportunities relevant to your role and equipping you with specialist skills.

This will be an opportunity for you to learn new skills in a supportive and dynamic environment, potentially starting a new career in this highly specialist area.

We will invest in you as our strength is in our team and the people who work with us.

You will take part in regular clinical supervision, either group and individual, to support your practice and regular team meetings for effective communication.

You will also be able to take part in our weekly CPD programme, where we have an extensive range of internal and external speakers.

We have a strong culture of research and a continuous drive for improving quality, and there is plentiful opportunity to contribute to our ongoing programme.

In contributing to the running of the service and leading on specific areas of interest we will invest in you and your career, but we also will gain from your experience and innovations.

If you are interested and have any questions please phone 0116 2252557.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

17 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-24-0721

Job locations

Forest Grange Outpatients, The Bennion Centre

Groby Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9DZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, physiotherapist or psychologist.
Evidence of relevant post graduate registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions to enable the management of a caseload of service users with complex needs.

Experience

Essential

Significant post registration/qualification experience of working with service users with complex mental health needs.
Significant experience of undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments.
Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality service user centred care and patient education.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Demonstrates effective communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to demonstrate leadership and work effectively with others
Demonstrates initiative and ability to work independently, able to problem solve and prioritise own and others work
Demonstrates planning and organisational skills
Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility dependent upon work priorities
Able to make judgements based on evidence based practice
and translate this for use in the clinical team environment
To be able to demonstrate understanding of current developments in the NHS and their implications for leadership and quality care for clients/service users
Ability to motivate self and others.
Ability to operate a computer to use standard Office programmes
and Electronic Patient Record Systems

Personal Attributes

Essential

Emotional resilience
Physically capable for performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder

Standard Requirements and Mobility

Essential

Commitment to Equality & Valuing Diversity Principles
Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection
Understanding of the service users of the Trust (which could include lived experience of conditions the Trust deals with or of receiving services relevant to those the Trust provides)
Own transport or suitable alternative. Dependence on public transport is not suitable for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, physiotherapist or psychologist.
Evidence of relevant post graduate registration training and development in particular motivational interviewing, brief solution focussed interventions, cognitive and behavioural approaches and psychosocial interventions to enable the management of a caseload of service users with complex needs.

Experience

Essential

Significant post registration/qualification experience of working with service users with complex mental health needs.
Significant experience of undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments.
Demonstrates motivation and commitment to providing high quality service user centred care and patient education.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Demonstrates effective communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to demonstrate leadership and work effectively with others
Demonstrates initiative and ability to work independently, able to problem solve and prioritise own and others work
Demonstrates planning and organisational skills
Demonstrates adaptability and flexibility dependent upon work priorities
Able to make judgements based on evidence based practice
and translate this for use in the clinical team environment
To be able to demonstrate understanding of current developments in the NHS and their implications for leadership and quality care for clients/service users
Ability to motivate self and others.
Ability to operate a computer to use standard Office programmes
and Electronic Patient Record Systems

Personal Attributes

Essential

Emotional resilience
Physically capable for performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder

Standard Requirements and Mobility

Essential

Commitment to Equality & Valuing Diversity Principles
Understanding of Confidentiality & Data Protection
Understanding of the service users of the Trust (which could include lived experience of conditions the Trust deals with or of receiving services relevant to those the Trust provides)
Own transport or suitable alternative. Dependence on public transport is not suitable for this role.

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.

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Forest Grange Outpatients, The Bennion Centre

Groby Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9DZ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Forest Grange Outpatients, The Bennion Centre

Groby Road

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 9DZ

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)