Job summary
The Eating Disorders Intensive Pathway (EDIP) Support Worker is a vital member of the multidisciplinary team, providing practical and therapeutic community-based support to young people with severe eating disorders and their families. The role involves meal support, monitoring physical health, and empowering families to actively manage recovery at home as an alternative to inpatient care.
Main duties of the job
We value you and we are interested in what you want from your career, to grow and develop for your continuing professional development and we will work closely with you to focus on and to tailor your individual needs. We want to explore options for your personal development and to expand your therapeutic skill set. This will include the option to rotate within the service to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.
About us
The team is made up of a rich resource of multidisciplinary professionals who support psychological ways of working. The team includes Registered Nurses, Family Therapist. Doctors, Psychologists, Assistant Psychologist, Community Support Workers, Psychotherapists, Administrators and Paedatric Consultants
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide interventions in the community near where CYP live
- Provide interventions that help CYP achieve safe nutritional and hydration intake, including NG feeding support if necessary
- Provide intensive family support (including best practice interventions such as the Maudsley Family Intensive Group Model)
- Empower families and parents to actively support CYPs recovery
- Support CYPs weight restoration and resumption of control over eating
- Increase CYP autonomy to maintain a healthy weight and positive body image
- Identify emotional triggers for eating disorders and provide appropriate psychosocial interventions
- Facilitate meaningful involvement of young people and carers in shaping the EDIP service (People Participation Champion role)
- Act as a liaison between service users, carers, and the EDIP team to inform service planning and improvement
- Work collaboratively with community hospital-at-home paediatric and acute paediatric services, supporting feeding when needed
- Establish effective pathway interfaces with community services, inpatient services, and social services
- Support transition planning into adult services when required
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide interventions in the community near where CYP live
- Provide interventions that help CYP achieve safe nutritional and hydration intake, including NG feeding support if necessary
- Provide intensive family support (including best practice interventions such as the Maudsley Family Intensive Group Model)
- Empower families and parents to actively support CYPs recovery
- Support CYPs weight restoration and resumption of control over eating
- Increase CYP autonomy to maintain a healthy weight and positive body image
- Identify emotional triggers for eating disorders and provide appropriate psychosocial interventions
- Facilitate meaningful involvement of young people and carers in shaping the EDIP service (People Participation Champion role)
- Act as a liaison between service users, carers, and the EDIP team to inform service planning and improvement
- Work collaboratively with community hospital-at-home paediatric and acute paediatric services, supporting feeding when needed
- Establish effective pathway interfaces with community services, inpatient services, and social services
- Support transition planning into adult services when required
Person Specification
Education Training and Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent mental health experience
- Good standard of education with proven literacy and numeracy skills.
Desirable
- European Computer Driving License (ECDL)
- Training in phlebotomy, taking physical health measurements, or equivalent clinical skills (to assist with medical monitoring tasks).
- Any formal training in facilitation, community engagement or co-production (for example, a workshop or course on running focus groups or engaging young people).
Previous Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in mental health services
- Previous experience working with/ supporting young people in mental health services or a similar role
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
- Positive attitude towards working with people with mental health problems
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices
- Experience of supporting people to have a voice
Desirable
- Experience of working with children or within the Safeguarding Children framework
- Experience of supporting young people experiencing episodes of heightened stress/distress
- People Participation/Service User Involvement
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work with patients on an individual or group basis, focusing on their recovery pathway.
- Ability to enable and empower patients in a way that increases their self esteem, raises their confidence and help them to identify positive qualities in self.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills relevant to the legal requirements of client care and related issues and the documentation of that care.
- Ability to support the multidisciplinary team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of mental and physical care appropriate to the needs of the client group and clinical speciality and the ability to use evidenced based approaches in the delivery of care.
- Ability to recognise stress in oneself and others and manage appropriately accessing additional support where necessary.
- Ability to work autonomously and to work as part of a team
- Demonstrate an awareness how your own approach and communication style may impact on service users, their carers and members of your own team.
- Be prepared to use reflection in action and on action to gain a deeper understanding and insight from situations and experiences occurring inside and outside the work environment and how these can impact on each other.
Desirable
- Experience of devising groups and activities.
Person Specification
Education Training and Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent mental health experience
- Good standard of education with proven literacy and numeracy skills.
Desirable
- European Computer Driving License (ECDL)
- Training in phlebotomy, taking physical health measurements, or equivalent clinical skills (to assist with medical monitoring tasks).
- Any formal training in facilitation, community engagement or co-production (for example, a workshop or course on running focus groups or engaging young people).
Previous Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working in mental health services
- Previous experience working with/ supporting young people in mental health services or a similar role
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
- Positive attitude towards working with people with mental health problems
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and the ability to integrate into employment policies and practices
- Experience of supporting people to have a voice
Desirable
- Experience of working with children or within the Safeguarding Children framework
- Experience of supporting young people experiencing episodes of heightened stress/distress
- People Participation/Service User Involvement
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work with patients on an individual or group basis, focusing on their recovery pathway.
- Ability to enable and empower patients in a way that increases their self esteem, raises their confidence and help them to identify positive qualities in self.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills relevant to the legal requirements of client care and related issues and the documentation of that care.
- Ability to support the multidisciplinary team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of mental and physical care appropriate to the needs of the client group and clinical speciality and the ability to use evidenced based approaches in the delivery of care.
- Ability to recognise stress in oneself and others and manage appropriately accessing additional support where necessary.
- Ability to work autonomously and to work as part of a team
- Demonstrate an awareness how your own approach and communication style may impact on service users, their carers and members of your own team.
- Be prepared to use reflection in action and on action to gain a deeper understanding and insight from situations and experiences occurring inside and outside the work environment and how these can impact on each other.
Desirable
- Experience of devising groups and activities.
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).
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).
