Home Treatment Support Worker/Nursing Associate: Sponsorship Available

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Our Children and Young People’s CAMHS Eating Disorder Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Home Treatment Support Worker or Nursing Associate to work with children and young people with eating disorders, and their families.

Providing interventions in the family home, in clinic and via online platforms as part of the service’s new Home Treatment offer. This is an exciting opportunity to work in this county-wide service using a range of models (including family based approaches, CBT, CAT and IPT) and to play a key role in supporting young people to remain in the community for treatment and avoid or delay admission to Tier 4 specialist units.

The post holders will also support the transitions of young people out of inpatient units. You will be supported by qualified Band 6 within the home treatment part of the service but also be a key part of the wider multi- disciplinary CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with the team’s range of professionals to provide specialist interventions, physical observations and anorexia-nervosa-focused family therapy support for eating disorders in the community. Use your knowledge and experience of eating disorders, gained in community or inpatient settings, to support families to implement the team’s treatment recommendations with intensive meal support and monitoring. Foster helping relationships with parents/carers and young people.

Part of the role will involve liaison with other CAMHS specialist teams, wider trust teams and with our outside partners like education and social care. With the team, supporting effective admission and discharge from local acute trusts and specialist Tier 4 provision when necessary.

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

About us

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • Good general education
  • Level of educational attainment to NVQ 3 / AS Level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Training in mental health or social care
  • Associate Nurse qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with people in a mental health or social care setting
  • Working with families
  • Working with children and young people

Desirable

  • Previous work with people with eating disorders in community or inpatient setting.
  • Previous experience of working in health or social setting, either statutory or non-statutory service
  • Lived experience of mental health

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Good organisational skills
  • Ability to liaise and network widely and effectively

Desirable

  • IT skills
  • Nursing associate skills in physical observations and medical procedures such as phlebotomy and ECG

Physical Requirements

Essential

  • Be able to travel in the community by driving

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 08 October 2024

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