Clinical Support Worker - Eating Disorders | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,857 - £30,570 per annum (inc. of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Maidenhead, SL6 6DU |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7252207/371-CFS513 |
Summary
Are you looking for a new rewarding position working alongside a fantastically supportive team who consistently rate their job satisfaction highly?
We are looking for a Support Worker to join our very well-established All Age Eating Disorders Service .We have a full time vacancy in our adults Day Programme.
You will play an important role, under the guidance of a qualified professional, providing and delivering care to patients within a clinical Day Programme setting. You will support members of the MDT in the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of effective, evidenced based care, ensuring the care is holistic and that our standards of care are enhanced. You will also provide quality, care and support which enables patients to be supported with a recovery focus throughout their care episode, whilst promoting independence and protecting choice, dignity, privacy, and safety.
Our service, covers Berkshire with a well-established Day Programme that provide evidence-based assessment and treatment for adults presenting with an eating disorder.
The working pattern for this role is Monday to Thursday, 8am – 4pm and Fridays 9am – 5pm.
The role includes delivering care to adults bothindividually and withina group setting.Thiswillbebasedon a clinic site,(St Marks hospital). You will be expected to work within this complex and variable setting, without direct supervision where clinicallyappropriate, but reporting to and in collaboration with senior colleagues, to deliver a high standard of evidence-based care and treatmentin order tomaximise each person's individual potential.
This post includes working withpatients and at times theirfamilies and / or carers in collaboration with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
• Compassion towards people struggling with eating disorders and mental health difficulties, and a heartfelt desire to help others.
• Resilience which enables you to work in a fast-paced and at times demanding NHS environment.
• Commitment to your colleagues and the ability to support each other, “muck in” and pull together as a team
• Creativity and innovation as you will be a part of a team which prides itself on adapting quickly and innovatively to change and challenges
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Pleasedon’thesitate tocontactVivianeGhuysviaemail:Viviane.ghuys@berkshire.nhs.ukwho’llbe delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Jun 2025
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