Nurse Lead for Adult Eating Disorders

1 month ago

Marlborough, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

The Wiltshire Community Eating Disorder Service (WCEDS) is looking for an experienced mental health nurse with a passion for making a difference to adults who are suffering with an eating disorder. This is a community-based role.

The successful candidate will join our team providing specialist assessment and treatment to service users with eating disorders that have been referred to the community team. We engage with patients in a variety of settings including at a community hospital base, home visits and online appointments.

This role offers a wealth of clinical experience, development opportunities and strong links with the network of Nurses and multi-disciplinary professionals delivering specialist Eating Disorders services across the trust.

With a reputation for excellence, our service provides a stepped model of care tailored to the individual’s needs for stabilisation and recovery. We offer a range of programmes and evidence-based treatments to assist with this. We are a friendly energetic and dynamic team who are proactive and visionary, focusing on excellent patient centred care.

This advert is open to internal applicants only, this is colleagues who are employed by Oxford Health.

Main duties of the job

This exciting role will enable you to provide a high quality, specialist service to patients referred to the Wiltshire Community Eating Disorder Service.

Using your clinical expertise, you will provide help and support to patients suffering with an eating disorder and adopt a lead role in the provision of evidence-based interventions.

You will be expected to exercise autonomous clinical responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients in the service; whilst being embedded within a diverse multidisciplinary team. The role will enable you to offer professional leadership and expert advice, consultancy and supervision to support the work of colleagues providing care and treatment. You will also liaise with members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for client care.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible 

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:  “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:  “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers Competitive pension scheme Lease car scheme Cycle to work scheme Employee Assistance Programme Mental Health First Aiders Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply) Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What we need from you:

· Registered Mental Health Nurse, with current professional registration

· Advanced clinical skills in the assessment and treatment of service users with eating disorders

· Post graduate training in and experience of delivering eating disorders evidence-based interventions.

· Experience of delivering professional leadership and expert advice, consultancy

· Evidence of involvement in innovative practice or service developments

· Be self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as showing initiative and promoting new ideas on how to improve the service.

Be compassionate, caring and creative with excellent communication skills.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Mental Health Nurse, with current registration Educated to degree level Advanced clinical skills in the relevant specialty Completion of evidence-based interventions for eating disorders across the age range Continuing registration with body overseeing practice of core mental health profession, e.g., NMC

Desirable criteria

Non-medical prescribing qualification, willingness to work towards Leadership training/qualification.

Knoweldge and Experience

Essential criteria

Post graduate training in and experience of delivering eating disorders evidence-based interventions Evidence of contribution to policy, protocols, and patient care pathway development Formal management skills and experience Evidence of involvement in innovative practice or service developments Formal leadership skills and experience

Desirable criteria

Published papers. Involvement in Quality Improvement and or Research

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others Experience of teaching, facilitating and formal training course All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.  We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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