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Published: 23 June 2023

Group Worker opportunity

At Eating Distress North East we know the importance of holding a safe space where people can feel heard and know that recovery from disordered eating is always possible. 

We’re looking for someone with excellent group facilitation skills; understanding and knowledge of mental health issues and how they impact on individual and families; and a commitment to holding hope and the knowledge that recovery is possible for people affected by eating distress and disorders. 

You will set up and run our group work offer to people and their families, working with our Counselling Lead to ensure our group service is responsive to need.  

About us 

We’re going through a period of change at EDNE, with a premises move on the cards and a new leadership team and strategy in place. Last year we supported over 450 people in our service and we want to do more to meet rising need. 

87% of people said they have better ability and skills to cope with eating distress and life generally after using our services. If you want to improve the lives of people affected by ED this might be the place for you. 

We offer 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (full time equivalent), a training budget plus ongoing training on eating distress specifically, and clinical supervision. And the opportunity to work in a small but dynamic charity with experienced, knowledgeable and supportive colleagues. 

We’d welcome an informal chat with anyone interested in the role, please get in touch with Rachel Cowey, EDNE Counselling Lead, Rachel.Cowey@edne.org.uk to arrange this. 

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, and in particular those that are currently under represented in our workforce. 

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Deadline for applications: 5pm on Thursday 13th July

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"Thank you so much for all your help over the past few months. I’ve never been comfortable enough to open up about my eating struggles so honestly and detailed to anybody (including other professionals!) like I have been able to with you and I can’t put into words how much I appreciate all the support, kindness and time you have given me through a really difficult period. Whoever has you as their therapist next is very lucky 😊"

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You think you’re the only person in the world. Now I’ve found out I’m not the only one.

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The counselling sessions were absolutely amazing and life-changing.

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I used to block out feeling with food, it’s not like that now’

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Once I got through the door it was easy. They didn’t judge. EDNE helped me to get to be this new person. The old one never looked up and never spoke.

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The EDNE counsellor’s the only person who has helped me.. the big high walls have come down

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It has literally changed the quality of my life.

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Eating distress ..is such a secretive thing. This has been the first time I didn’t feel alone with it.

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The counselling has been a big turning point and the support from EDNE has been amazing.

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‘..has given me life-changing help. They’ve helped me overcome the barriers. It’s been about unravelling decades.

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EDNE started me thinking about what resilience is and how I could manage day to day and have strategies’

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EDNE was friendly welcoming and flexible

Health and Wellbeing Sessions

I actually came off the session feeling I'm genuinely not alone in the types of thoughts I have. Useful tips given right through the session which I will hold on to.  Thank you 

Friends and Family

The group is helping me to open up and have a more open mind, to feel supported.

Friends and Family

Thank you!  It’s very relieving to know others are in similar situations and have come out at the other side. 

Testimonials

‘I couldn’t have managed without coming here. I genuinely think this place has kept me alive. I have a sense of hope now.’

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..entire process has been incredibly supportive and empathetic, giving me the support I needed to move forwards.

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‘It was not just putting a plaster over something, it was about healing it. I can’t describe how it feels to have switched my mindset, after 50 years it is mind-blowing’

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I was given permission to feel. Instead of being a person with an eating disorder, I was a person who could feel feelings’

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I’ve really appreciated the help I’ve been given at EDNE, I didn’t feel like I was just there as a client who just needed to get to the end of their sessions. I actually felt heard and understood.

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