Senior Practitioner Jobs

Job Overview
The CONNECT West Yorkshire Adult Eating Disorders Service is looking to recruit a Senior Practitioner to our expanding service across West Yorkshire.
This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational and motivated professional with excellent interpersonal and clinical skills to deliver and shape the newly developed team that will be based within the CMHT in Bradford.
You will be part of a wider West Yorkshire regional team that is based in CMHTs across the Kirklees, Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds and Wakefield localities.
The team will be a secondary care service that forms part of the wider Connect service providing care and treatment in the community to adults with an eating disorder. You will have some experience of working with individuals with an eating disorder in order to provide advice and consultation for CMHTs whilst also working as a co-worker for a small caseload of service users.
The post holder must hold a Professional Healthcare registration. A car driver is essential to this post.
Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to provide training, advice and support other healthcare providers across the area and promote close links with local mental health providers, including CMHTs. A commitment to continuous professional development for both yourself is essential, as this will ensure that our team has the required skills and knowledge to deliver safe and effective care.
You must be passionate about the delivery of high quality, compassionate care with a forward thinking approach to proactively lead the. We have embraced new ways of working and new technology to successfully deliver services throughout the pandemic. We will continue to embrace technology to innovate and improve whilst ensuring that we continue to provide an inclusive and high quality service.
The duties of this post will be to sit within the CMHT’s providing training, advice and support to the existing staff within these teams and other healthcare providers across the area, and to promote close links with local mental health providers.
You will be working within a team that consists of a Clinical Team Manager, 4 Specialist Practitioners, 3 Peer Support workers and an Advanced Nurse Practitioner.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team [email protected]
Detailed And Main Responsibilities
The duties of this post will be to sit within the CMHT’s providing training, advice and support to the existing staff within these teams and other healthcare providers across the area, and to promote close links with local mental health providers.
We will also be undertaking a period of scoping, capturing data and gathering outcome measures as part of the ICS.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria

• Professional registration

Skills
Essential criteria

• Good communication skills across services

Experience
Essential criteria

• 2 years post reg
• Eating disorders experience
• Clinical experience