Eating Disorders Support Worker - CAMHS

Main area Eating Disorders Support Worker Grade Band 4 Contract 8 months (Fixed term contract until 31st March 2027. With the possibility of it becoming a permanent position) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work across a 7 day week) Job  

Site Dependent on applicant preference - Truro Health Park / Newquay IHH / 6a Heathlands, Liskeard Town Truro Salary £28,392 - £31,157 Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 24/08/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

Great Care

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

Great Organisation

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• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

Great People

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

Great Partner

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The purpose of this post is to work as part of a team that offers short term intensive interventions to young people with eating disorders, with the view of reducing or avoiding a hospital admission.

The post will involve meal support in the young person’s home environment, along with implementation of distress tolerance and emotional regulation interventions. You will be working as part of the eating disorders multi-disciplinary team, and regular training and support will be provided.

Interventions primarily take place in the young person’s home environment, community settings, locality team bases and via in-reach to the local district general hospital and inpatient psychiatric wards.

You will be working as part of a 7 day per week service, with shifts being 7.30am to 7.30pm.

Our team purpose is to prevent hospital admission for young people, and instead provide an at home alternative where young people can continue to engage in their homes and communities whilst receiving appropriate care and treatment for their eating disorder.

The post will involve meal support in the young person’s home environment, along with implementation of distress tolerance and emotional regulation interventions.

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners…