Assistant Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

The Central Norfolk Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service (CEN-CAEDS) is based on site at Hellesdon Hospital. We work with children and young people, who are suspected of or have a diagnosis of an eating disorder and offer family-based and individual treatment.

As a Band 4 Practitioner, you would form part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), co-working cases with other clinicians in the team and providing individualised, holistic care to young people in the service.

Treatment is provided by a multidisciplinary team consisting of clinicians with overlapping clinical skills and knowledge.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing a high level of care for young people with eating disorders. Therefore, excellent interpersonal communication and organisational skills are required.

You will need to be confident while also offering service users support, showing respect and compassion to the service user, their family, and carers. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and providing excellent care under the supervision of a registered professional in the team.

You will attend team meetings with the MDT and update on the progress of young people in the service and review their care and treatment needs.

You will be on the assessment rota and take part in assessing new referrals to the service.

You will monitor the physical health of young people within the service and respond appropriately to any concerns.

You will be arranging and facilitating face-to-face appointments with young people and their families as part of their treatment. You will be expected to keep accurate and detailed documentation and care plans as part of this role.

You may be expected to visit young people in acute hospitals or inpatient units to review them and support planning for discharge to the community.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• gym membership
• NHS discounts and many more.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.