Specialist Practitioner

The Essex Eating Disorders Team's Intensive Support Pathway provides community care to children and young people across Essex, Southend and Thurrock. The work centres on home-based support for families, including meal support and physical health monitoring, aimed at avoiding hospital admission and enabling early discharge. Caseloads also include visits to young people in acute hospitals and close work with therapists on Family-Based Therapy.

Regular travel is central, so the post requires reliable access to suitable transport.

• Provide intensive community-based support to children and young people with eating disorders and their families as part of the ISP
• Deliver meal support and therapeutic interventions in the home to support recovery and reduce hospital admission
• Visit young people in acute hospitals to give specialist eating disorder support, contribute to discharge planning and ensure continuity of care
• Monitor physical health and wellbeing,
  ** escalate
  * * concerns and contribute to risk assessment and management
• Work with therapists to support Family-Based Therapy and agreed care plans
• Provide emotional, practical and psycho educational support to young people, families and carers
• Advocate for children and young people, ensuring individualised care focused on recovery goals
• Work with multidisciplinary colleagues, GPs, schools, acute hospitals and partner agencies to coordinate care
• Manage a varied caseload and prioritise competing demands
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to care planning, review and evaluation
• Provide specialist advice to professionals involved in the care of children and young people with eating disorders
• Ensure interventions follow Trust policies, clinical governance standards and health and safety requirements

• Access to suitable transport for home visits and travel to acute hospitals across Essex

• Investment in training and development
• Staff health and wellbeing activities
• Staff networks and equality initiatives
• Induction of up to two weeks starting on the first Monday of the month, including meeting senior managers