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Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner and FREED Coordinator

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About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

  • We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
  • We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values

Our Vision

"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".

Our Purpose

"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".

Our Values

  • We Care
  • We Learn
  • We Empower

Our strategic objectives

  • We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
  • We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
  • We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
  • We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

  • Mental Health Services
  • Community Health Services
  • Learning Disabilities Services
  • Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Job overview

The Essex Community Adult Eating Disorders Service is developing the FREED pathway (First episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders), alongside the existing service. This post covers the service in the mid and south areas of Essex.

The post holder will have primary responsibility for ensuring its smooth and effective implementation. This will involve considerable liaison with primary care services, education and promotion of a new treatment pathway. The post holder manages all referrals for this pathway and offers initial triage, as well as providing a clinical service to people experiencing an eating disorder.

Main duties of the job

  • The post holder is based with the expanding Community Adult Eating Disorder Service. The primary focus for the post holder is in working with clients accessing treatment through the FREED pathway, though the post holder will also contribute to, and is part of, the broader team.
  • In addition the post holder is responsible for liaising and working with other professionals as appropriate, alongside the promotion and development in the service of the FREED approach.
  • You will lead with other senior colleagues the continuing development of a high quality service that is underpinned by evidence based practice and care pathways / packages and NICE guidance and DH guidance; leading on service development and policy in conjunction with the other senior clinicians, and Service Lead.
  • You will also have responsibility for the day-to-day supervision and management of lower banded staff within your team as required by your manager, this may include the management of these staff in line with agreed Trust HR processes.

Working for our organisation

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To manage all referrals accessing the service via the FREED pathway, including initial triage and subsequent allocation
  • To lead a regular 'FREED Huddle' in the North Essex locality, bringing together all clinicians involved in the FREED service delivery
  • Assess patients referred to the service and co-produce appropriate treatment plans.
  • Use appropriate evidence based treatment such as MANTRA, CBT-E, SSCM etc.
  • Manage and oversee care of service users with highly complex needs.
  • Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation/records on all service users in line with your Professional Code of Conduct and Trust policy
  • Conduct and supervise assessment and observation to ensure appropriate and timely feedback to the team
  • Conduct, supervise and oversee risk assessments of the individual highly complex cases and the potential hazards in the service user's environment
  • Provide professional clinical leadership at multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral/ review/business, professional or safeguarding meetings
  • Report and document incidents as required and act upon findings as appropriate
  • Act as a care coordinator in highly complex cases
  • Assess and review care and support and supervise lower banded staff in this process
  • Provide practical support, guidance and education for services users, carers and other professionals as required.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Qualification in a core mental health profession (mental health nursing, occupational therapy, clinical/counselling psychology, systemic psychotherapy)
  • Professional registration (with e.g. NMC, HCPC, UKCP)

Desirable criteria

  • Trained in the use of MANTRA, CBT-E, SSCM or other therapy approach

Knowledge

Essential criteria

  • Detailed knowledge of risks specific to people with eating disorders
  • Detailed knowledge of eating disorders including psychological and behavioural factors
  • Knowledge of specialist assessment, intervention/treatment of eating disorders

!Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email epunft.recruitment.adverts@nhs.net and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

  • Job Description (PDF, 728.5KB)
  • Person Specification (PDF, 544.3KB)
  • EPUT Pledge - Step into Health (PDF, 211.0KB)
  • Candidate Privacy Policy (PDF, 336.6KB)
  • Right to Work Information (PDF, 293.6KB)
  • Employer Recognition Scheme - Gold Award (PDF, 27.7KB)
  • Trust Vision and Values (PDF, 168.9KB)
  • Values of the NHS Pension (PDF, 151.3KB)

Senior Eating Disorder Practitioner and FREED Coordinator

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Basildon, UK
Full-Time, Temp

Published on 22/06/2024

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