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Job summary

Main area
CAMHS Eating Disorder
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week (Flexible working options available)
Job ref
274-11553-SP-A
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
TBC
Town
Lincoln
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/10/2025 23:59

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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

CAMHS Eating Disorder Service Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Are you interested and have experience in Eating disorders or Child adolescent mental Health services? ……then this is for you.

We have an exciting opportunity in our Lincolnshire County wide CAMHS Eating disorder service for 30 hours per week.

We are a highly specialised team providing psychotherapy for young people up to the age of 18 suffering from Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, or Binge eating disorder.

As a service, working closely with Adult Eating Disorder services, we also provide the delivery of FREED (First Episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) see https://freedfromed.co.uk

Our team offers early specialist assessment and intervention using evidence-based approaches to young people; up to the age of 18 alongside their family/ carers. These interventions include FBT, CBT-E and Guided self Help.

You will be given the opportunity to develop your skills, knowledge and gain experience in this specialist field and work alongside a knowledgeable, passionate, and dedicated MDT, who are all active in research, education, and training. Our team is made up of Psychiatry, Psychologists, Specialist Nurses, FREED Specialist/ clinical Lead and Support workers.

You will receive regular supervision; and will be actively encouraged and supported in continual professional development. Specialist training, learning, and teaching opportunities are encouraged and supported in this position.

Main duties of the job

  • As a CAMH EDS Nurse you will work within a multidisciplinary team. You will be required to carry out thorough assessments of new referrals and have an active role in team discussions where the need for specialist treatment is decided.
  • You will hold and take responsibility for managing a clinical caseload of children and young people with complex needs. You will be provided with supervision in order to reflect upon your practice and further develop your skills.
  • You will evaluate the effectiveness of treatment offered and provide clinical data/outcome measures as required.
  • You will liaise with professionals from other services, offering support and guidance on how they can best manage the young persons needs.
  • In order to continually develop your knowledge and skills you will participate in a Professional Development Review, identifying your development needs and formulating a development plan with your line manager.
  • As students regularly attend this service, your role will involve the welcoming and supporting these students.
  • You will work alongside an experienced team to support the delivery training.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

 We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

•            Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

•            Competitive annual leave allowance

•            Car leasing scheme

•            NHS pension scheme

•            Free eye tests

•            Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

•            Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered professional Nurse/Social worker with current registration. • ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
  • Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
  • Mentorship Module (degree level)
Desirable criteria
  • Management training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post qualifying experience of working in a CAMHS or Eating Disorder service.
  • Relevant post-registration experience of working with people with mental health needs
  • Experience of managing and developing staff including providing management supervision
  • Experience of using evidence based practice.
  • Evidence of working in partnership and engaging with Service Users/other agencies

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Expert knowledge of Child Care legislation, Safeguarding, Mental Health Act and the Care Programme Approach.
  • Excellent knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning CAMHS, Children’s Services and eating disorders.
  • Sound understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis.
  • Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues anxieties
  • Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
  • Highly developed communication skills
  • Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate
  • Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & families/carers to improve outcomes.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Meg Burgess
Job title
Acting CAMHS EDS Team Coordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01205 354202
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