Eating Disorders Support Worker | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £33,094 - £36,195 per annum Inc HCAs |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E14 8HQ |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7656407/363-SS7656407 |
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The Eating Disorders Intensive Pathway (EDIP) Support Worker is a vital member of the multidisciplinary team, providing practical and therapeutic community-based support to young people with severe eating disorders and their families. The role involves meal support, monitoring physical health, and empowering families to actively manage recovery at home as an alternative to inpatient care.
We value you and we are interested in what you want from your career, to grow and develop for your continuing professional development and we will work closely with you to focus on and to tailor your individual needs. We want to explore options for your personal development and to expand your therapeutic skill set. This will include the option to rotate within the service to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.
The team is made up of a rich resource of multidisciplinary professionals who support psychological ways of working. The team includes Registered Nurses, Family Therapist. Doctors, Psychologists, Assistant Psychologist, Community Support Workers, Psychotherapists, Administrators and Paedatric Consultants
• Provide interventions in the community near where CYP live
• Provide interventions that help CYP achieve safe nutritional and hydration intake, including NG feeding support if necessary
• Provide intensive family support (including best practice interventions such as the Maudsley Family Intensive Group Model)
• Empower families and parents to actively support CYP’s recovery
• Support CYP’s weight restoration and resumption of control over eating
• Increase CYP autonomy to maintain a healthy weight and positive body image
• Identify emotional triggers for eating disorders and provide appropriate psychosocial interventions
• Facilitate meaningful involvement of young people and carers in shaping the EDIP service (People Participation Champion role)
• Act as a liaison between service users, carers, and the EDIP team to inform service planning and improvement
• Work collaboratively with community hospital-at-home paediatric and acute paediatric services, supporting feeding when needed
• Establish effective pathway interfaces with community services, inpatient services, and social services
• Support transition planning into adult services when required
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025