Job summary
Our Children and Young People's CAMHS Eating Disorder Service is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Mental Health Practitioner to work with children and young people with eating disorders, and their families. We are a specialist multi-disciplinary eating disorders service for young people and their families, providing evidence-based treatment approaches in clinics across the Trust. We are a compassionate, supportive team, committed to empowering young people and their families so that they can keep well in the community.

The CAMHS Eating Disorders Service is a well-established service, working alongside staff in our CPFT Community CAMHS teams and working closely with our local day programme and local acute paediatric services.

We are seeking to appoint a CAMHS Practitioner with a strong interest in working with young people with eating disorders and their families and a commitment to delivering specialist assessments and manualised interventions such as family therapy for eating disorders and CBT-E.

The postholder will work in clinics settings and as part of our home support pathway.

Main duties of the job
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence\* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

This post gives the opportunity to develop skills in this area, working within an experienced team. The post-holder will be offered the opportunity for training in family therapy for eating disorders and continued professional development.

Our service has a strong commitment to professional development through individual supervision, training, appraisal and an ethos of close multi-disciplinary working.

The post is a permanent role and full-time hours. We will also consider part time hours. The applicant will need to be able to travel to sites across the county.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applicants from all communities to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve.

\*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Details
Date posted
10 August 2026

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 5

Salary
£32,073 to £39,043 a year

per annum pro rata

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time,

Part-time

Reference number
310-CYPF-8168435

Job locations
Newtown Centre

Nursery Road

Huntingdon

PE29 3RJ

United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Work as an active integral member of the CAMHS eating disorders team.
• Assist in the assessment of children and young people, contributing to formulations and decisions regarding treatment options, and ensuring the fullest possible involvement from children, young people and families.
• Be able to use specialist knowledge to make decisions about a child or young people, families and carers.
• Where required and clinically justified, give advice and training to children, young people, families and carers.
• To be proactive in maintaining high clinical standards and to monitor own performance against agreed standards and policies.
• To use routine outcome monitoring to inform clinical practice through supervision and care planning and to participate in the teams use of routine outcome monitoring to inform service design across CAMHS.
• Provide a range of direct work and participate in the delivery of evidence-based therapeutic programmes particularly CBT-E and family-based approaches on both an individual and group basis to children, young people and families.
• The post will include some dedicated time working in the Home Support Pathway. The Home Support Pathway is integrated within the CAMHS Eating Disorders Service and provide intensive at home support to prevent hospital admission.
• To maintain accurate, clear and timely clinical records in accordance with professional and CPFT guidelines on record keeping and confidentiality.
• To participate in clinical effectiveness activities, clinical and professional forums and report on these.

Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential

• A registered qualification in one of the following: Mental health/children's nursing/ learning disability nursing/ teaching/social work or occupational therapist with professional registration

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of training appropriate to child mental health care

Experience
Essential

• Willing to undertake preceptorship programme

Desirable

• Experience of managing workload and ability to prioritise
• Evidence of clinical supervision experience
• Experience of care co-ordination
• Experience of working with individuals, families and multi-disciplinary teams

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Planning and organisational skills for caseload management
• Skills with working with other within a multi-disciplinary team and under supervision

Desirable

• Experience with working with children and young people service users and their families
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional, and academic settings

Knowledge & Understanding
Essential

• Knowledge of contemporary policy and legislation relating to mental health and social care
• Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of effective clinical practice
• Demonstrate a knowledge of the issues facing service users including social, financial and health issues

Other
Essential

• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address
Newtown Centre

Nursery Road

Huntingdon

PE29 3RJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website
https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Team Manager

June Everitt

june.everitt@cpft.nhs.uk

Details
Date posted
10 August 2026

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 5

Salary
£32,073 to £39,043 a year

per annum pro rata

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Full-time,

Part-time

Reference number
310-CYPF-8168435

Job locations
Newtown Centre

Nursery Road

Huntingdon

PE29 3RJ

United Kingdom

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