Associate Mental Health Worker

Job summary

Band 4 Associate Mental Health Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Day Programme

Join a close-knit, supportive team making a real difference in the lives of people recovering from eating disorders.

North London Foundation Trust is looking for a Band 4 Associate Mental Health Worker to join our specialist Eating Disorders Day Programme team, based at St Ann's Hospital. Our specialist service delivers inpatient, outpatient and day programme care across a large area of London -- and our day programme team is at the heart of it, working closely together to support patients on their recovery journey.

As part of a small, tight-knit team, you'll get to know your patients and colleagues well. You'll provide hands-on care and treatment to patients working towards recovery from an eating disorder, supporting both their physical and mental health needs, and playing a genuine role in their progress.

This is a fantastic opportunity to build your skills and specialist knowledge alongside a passionate, experienced multidisciplinary team who are active in research, education and training. Specialist training, professional development, and ongoing learning and teaching opportunities are built into the role from day one -- because we invest in our team as much as we invest in our patients.

If you're looking for meaningful work within a team that truly supports one another, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The day programme is a recovery focused service offering a full-time intensive group programme. Your role will include holding a caseload of patients with diverse and complex needs, planning and facilitating therapeutic groups for patients as part of the programme and working with the day programme multi-disciplinary team to support the physical health management of patients on the programme, including physical monitoring and supported meals.

Successful candidates will have strong engagement and motivation skills, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, strong self-management skills and the ability to work effectively in a team. We are looking for a dynamic individual who approaches challenges with creativity and enthusiasm and has a passion for helping individuals make life changing steps towards recovery and management of their eating disorder.

About us

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars: We are kind, we are respectful, we work together, we keep things simple, we empower, we are proudly diverse.

Job responsibilities

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