Job summary
- Main area
- MHWP
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 380-CED030
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Courtyard, Pudding Lane / George's Turle House
- Town
- Maidstone/Canterbury
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
The Kent and Medway All Age Eating Disorder Service (AAEDS) is a specialist community service offering NICE-concordant treatment for children (from the age of 8 and above), young people and adults with a diagnosed eating disorder.
The service includes different care pathways for children and adolescents and adults, including pathways for Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder and Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, FREED (Early Intervention Pathway), Intensive Care Pathway, and Support and Stability Pathway (for longer-term eating disorders).
You will need to have completed the Post Graduate Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioner training programme.
Main duties of the job
- You will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
- Delivering a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems i.e. eating disorder.
- You will take a lead role in completing triages for service users who symptoms are indicative of Binge Eating Disorder.
- you will be delivering our guided self help programme for service users diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder.
- Where applicable you will support any digital pathway for this cohort of service users.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description attached for the main duties and responsibilities for this post.
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health).
- Registration with the BPS or BABCP for accreditation in a MHWP role.
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice.
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing.
- Experience running groups/activities.
- Experience working as part of a team.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- An awareness of NHS priorities.
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers.
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
- Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users.
- Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically informed interventions to meet people’s health and wellbeing needs.
- Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the team’s understanding and formulation of service users’ difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natasha Shaw
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 300 1980
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