Assistant Practitioner

"The mission of the Norfolk & Waveney Eating Disorders service is to build meaningful, therapeutic relationships with young people and their families. Instilling hope, enabling change, and supporting recovery."

We are delighted to be recruiting an Assistant Practitioner to join our Eating Disorders Intensive Day Treatment Team (EDITT). This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative service which is regionally leading the way in Eating Disorders day treatment and due to its success is looking to expand what they offer. The service offers intensive day treatment for young people who require additional therapeutic support to manage their Eating Disorder.

This role is about building relationships, inspiring others, and working as part of a vibrant and skilled team to support recovery for those who access our service. The team pride themselves on working in collaboration with families therefore any experience of enthusiasm to working with young people and their parents/carers would support the successful candidate in this role.

If you have an interest in specialist mental health services and a desire to help young people and families to thrive, then you may be the right person for our team., We are looking to recruit a motivated assistant practitioner to be part of our multi-disciplinary team who can provide practical, emotional and therapeutic support to young people. Your main duties will involve developing a trusting therapeutic relationship with young people, helping them to build skills and therapeutic knowledge both on a 1:1 and in a group scenario, provide meal support, and support parents/carers alongside other members of the team.

Whilst experience working with young people would make you perfectly suited to this role, we are open to welcoming people from clinical backgrounds who have experience in other areas of mental health. We understand that you will be able to bring with you a wealth of skills and experience to the team and would welcome fresh ways of thinking.

Staff well-being is integral part of our service line and there are lots of opportunities for CPD development, specialist training and supervision, support from experienced colleagues and to be involved in the development of a service that wants to make a difference to people's lives.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

• NHS pension


• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes


• career progression


• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)


• staff physio service


• gym membership


• NHS discounts and many more.