It's a brilliant time to be joining adult eating disorders services as we continue to grow and develop as a service!

Are you a skilled mental health nurse wanting to work within an adult eating disorders service?

You will use your interpersonal and therapeutic skills to facilitate the service user's recovery from this mental health condition, whilst monitoring the service user's physical health. It's a specialism that is both rewarding and challenging.

If you are interested, have never worked within an eating disorders setting and want to develop yourself, have an informal chat with our fantastic team: call Diana Mongan or Tom Page on 01707 364006

If you have had previous experience of working with people with eating disorders, we would absolutely love to hear from you!

The Hertfordshire Community Eating Disorders Service is looking for a Community Nurse Practitioner to join the county-wide team. The post holder's team base will be in Welwyn Garden City but there will be a responsibility for clinical work throughout the county. You are likely to have an area you primarily work in.

Here's what our staff say about working in the team:

Working in CEDS feels very much like being part of a family and we always have our service users wellbeing at the heart of what we do. Everybody really genuinely cares. (Emma, Senior Eating Disorders Clinician)

I've enjoyed the team being so lovely and welcoming. I feel part of the family already! Dan, Senior CBT therapist

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• have experience of working with people with eating disorders or other mental health conditions
• have the ability to use your clinical skills proactively
• offer specialist assessment and treatment interventions to our clients with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and atypical presentations and their families.
• be given the opportunity to undertake training to provide a range of psychological and psycho-social interventions specialising in either CBT-E, SSCM or MANTRA
• provide supportive community nursing
• closely monitor physical health of service users
• provide outreach work, psychoeducation and physical monitoring of service users
• have phlebotomy skills or be willing to be trained
• hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Free Pilates lessons
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will function as a lead professional / care co-ordinator to a caseload of people with eating disorders and associated complex health needs as allocated, taking responsibility for formulation to appropriate care

Will act as a clinical expert in their service area. This means keeping clinically up to date, being able to assess service users thoroughly, plan care rigorously, and audit and evaluate nursing interventions based on evidence and locally agreed protocols and policies

Will co-ordinate all co-workers assigned to his\her service user group and will ensure they are fully conversant with all aspects regarding the service users care and

Will identify the individual care needs of allocated service users, plan, implement and evaluate all care programmes in conjunction with the services nursing team and the MDT.

Will co facilitate therapeutic groups with other members of the MDT

Together with the MDT will manage the risk presented by the eating disorder in relation to physical and mental health

For a more indepth Job and Person Specification please read the attached before applying

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• RMN or DipHE in Mental Health OR RGN/RNLD/RM/RSCN or DipHE in nursing with significant experience or training in mental health interventions that can be transferable to the eating disorders service work
• Current registration with NMC
• Mentorship experience
• Post registration experience at Band 5
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

• Experience of working with people with eating disorders
• Experience of working in other clinical settings
• Mentorship training Community nursing experience

Aptitude and Skills

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively within a multiprofessional team.
• Confidence to work autonomously, use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
• Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassuring skills are required.
• Ability to deal with distressing circumstances and challenging behaviour
• Experience of risk assessment and management.
• Ability to cope with an unpredictable work pattern and frequent interruptions
• Understanding of legal framework MHA, MCA, DoLS, safeguarding and social factors involved in care.
• Supervision skills

Desirable

• Specific clinical skills applicable e.g. management of low weight anorexics, phlebotomy, CBTE
• Implementing quality improvement initiatives.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work flexibly according to client / service needs.
• Receptive to changing environments and an ability to promote positive approaches to implementing changes according to service and client need.
• Leadership qualities
• Ability to remain calm in difficult situations
• Positive approach to work
• Attention to detail.

Other

Essential

• You must hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes - including business insurance - is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
• IT Skills including the use of Microsoft Office and Outlook, entering data onto electronic patient records
• Ability to travel and work flexibly across different sites in Hertfordshire

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6HG.

Parkway

Welwyn Garden City

AL8 6HG

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