Senior Mental Health Practitioner - CEDS | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2026 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 4JA |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7870148/311-HYM731-26-A |
Summary
Our Specialist Community Eating Disorder Service has an opportunity to for a Senior practitioner to join our dynamic MDT. We have an excellent reputation and strong links to CAMHS and paediatric teams across the GM network,
The post is based in our South hub in Stockport, where we work with young people aged 8-18 with a primary eating disorder, who live in the boroughs of Stockport and Tameside and Glossop
The post-holder will provide specialist assessment of young people with eating disorders and offer a wide range of psycho-therapeutic evidenced based interventions.
As a band 7 practitioner, the post holder will be expected to provide professional clinical supervision and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other practitioners, as well as contribute to the leadership of the service under the direction of the senior management team.
We are committed to delivering evidence based care and treatment for our patients and families. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values, and by doing so will make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.
Please see the job description and person specification to support your application for this post which highlight in detail the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application. Essentially though, you need to…
• Have qualifications or experience to masters level in any relevant discipline e.g. nursing, social work, clinical psychology or occupational therapy.
• Have experience/training in an additional therapeutic modality - motivational interviewing/CBT or a willingness to work towards.
• Have an interest/passion for improving life experience for young people and families.
• Have substantial experience of working with children, adolescents and families presenting with emotional and behavioural difficulties, family relationship problems including experience of working with young people with eating disorders.
• Enjoy working in a MDT setting.
• Have experience of managing a caseload and associated professional activities under supervision.
• Have experience of providing evidence based psychological therapy to children and adolescents.
• Have experience of providing clinical supervision and line management to team members.
• Have experience of using ROMs.
• Have experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups.
• Have experience in developing formulations.
This advert closes on Friday 27 Mar 2026