Associate Mental Health Worker

Applications are welcomed for this position within the Haringey Eating Disorder Service. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicants to develop skills and confidence working with clients with personality disorders in a highly supportive environment. You will work closely with a range of mental health professionals and will have the opportunity to undertake a variety of tasks to contribute to service provision.

St Ann’s Eating Disorders Service (part of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust) provides a comprehensive, specialist service to the North Central and North East London sectors. The service is comprised of a specialist eating disorder unit, along with a day program and community service.

Within the Eating Disorders Services, the successful applicants will have a broad range of duties; including contributing to the provision of both group and individual psychological work, undertaking defined pieces of work to support clinicians, and auditing and managing spread sheets. There are also likely to be opportunities to contribute to service development.

Clinical Supervision will be provided by senior clinicians and caseload management work will be supervised by senior members of the team. The service aims to foster a supportive environment for staff and the work of AMHW’s is also highly valued in the team.

The multi disciplinary team consists of nursing and medical teams, psychological therapists, social workers, OTs and AMHWs.

BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.

BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which is the lead provider of forensic mental health services; that managed the devolved New Models of care budget, it delivers MH care across some of the prisons, and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We also provide one of the largest eating disorder services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.

• Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.