Mental Health Practitioner

TN United Kingdom; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Are you passionate about patients receiving the best care? Are you looking for a specialist career pathway? Do you want to be influential in leading and developing a new model for the future? Then you may be the person we are looking for to be involved in shaping our services.

We are currently looking to recruit a keen, enthusiastic and highly motivated Mental Health Practitioner (RMNS, Occupational Therapists, or social workers) to join our Adult Community Eating Disorder Service, based within the grounds of Addenbrookes Hospital, in the vibrant University City of Cambridge.

It is a very exciting time to join our services, with plans in place to expand and develop our excellent service into a new model for providing care in the community.

Main duties of the job

Job overview

As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in developing services including MANTRA, providing interventions and group work along with the medical monitoring pathways. Previous experience in a leadership position is considered desirable for this post, and you will be required to work collaboratively and independently within our service.

Developing and improving clinical care form the key elements of this post, and you will be required to give expert advice and support to patients, their families/carers, the multidisciplinary team and other healthcare professionals. Working together with Matron, Consultants and Therapists, you will help develop and shape the service. In return for your commitment and enthusiasm, working within the unique Adult Eating Disorders Team will give you the opportunity to practice a full range of core leadership and MDT team skills.

Working for our organisation

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 settings but also within the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older People's 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.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.