Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 28th March 2025
Closing date: 22nd April 2025
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist
Job Description:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist and motivated Physiotherapist to join the new Intensive Home Treatment Team for Adult's with an Eating Disorder. This new service aims to increase support to individuals by wrapping around the care provision provided by their Community Eating Disorder Team in a supported way to promoting recovery from an Eating Disorder.
Your clinical skills will involve working with severe/complex individuals with an Eating Disorder and have an excellent understanding of physiotherapy focused evidence based assessments and skills to provide interventions and support in a community setting.
Main duties of the job
You will be working as part of a small team of professionals providing assessment, treatment and interventions to adults with an Eating Disorder. Individuals who will be accessing the service will be from Devon and Cornwall and interventions are aimed at preventing an admission to a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit and supporting early discharge in a stepped down way from a Specialist Eating Disorder Unit back into the Community. The Intensive Home Treatment Team will be reviewed and monitored as a new service with a formal evaluation taking place at the end of the 12 month period. We hope that individuals feel well supported, learn new skills and can make positive changes towards recovery.
As a new service we will need the candidate to be proactive, creative, be able to work well with others and have the capacity to offer lots of energy and ideas.
Please see attached job description for full details of role.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Contact information:
Eating Disorders Service Manager
Katy Kemp
01392208263
