Eating Disorders Senior Nurse - Intensive Support

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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen with the SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service.

The service is establishing a Intensive Support Day Service to prevent children & young people being admitted to TIER 4 settings and out of region.

We are looking for a Senior Specialist Nurse to join the exciting new branch of the well established SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service in North East London NHS Foundation Trust.

We appreciate that eating disorders can be a rewarding and challenging field to work in, even for those with experience, therefore, as well as excellent supervision and reflective practice sessions, we provide the opportunity to develop skills through joint working, access to internal training, CPD and external training courses. As an expanding service there is opportunity for progression within the team and input into service development.

We recognise that working within the NHS can be highly pressurised and there is a priority within the team to ensure that team members are supported to have a good work/life balance with flexibility around family friendly hours where possible.

Main duties of the job

The role will require to work with children and young people who are diagnosed with Eating Disorders and will support to run an Intensive Day Programme to support CYP remain at home in the community.

The day programme will offer patients meal support, physical health monitoring, therapy, groups and parent support throughout the week to support young people weight restore and support recovery in the community.

Main Duties will include

• Being part of the senior leadership to support management of the enhanced intensive support programme
• work within a nursing team caring for young people with eating disorders.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• To establish the role within the multi-disciplinary team.
• To assist with efficient and effective nursing care.
• Leading the nursing team, supporting the decision making and showing accountability for junior members of the team.
• To ensure safe evidence-based clinical practice and demonstrate clinical expertise, and have delegated responsibility for the delivery of high quality patient care
• To risk assess alongside the use of MEED guidelines
• Working alongside the lead clinicians and support the evidence based treatment of FT-AN

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will support the development of our new Intensive Support Pathway & Day Programme and provide families and children and young people an opportunity to manage their eating disorder in the community wherever possible in order to reduce the number of inpatient admissions and enable young people to remain at home with their families, alongside their support network with an intensive care package.

The successful applicant will work within a multi-disciplinary team, alongside the existing CAMHS team to meet the young person's physical and psychological needs. This innovative approach will help us to provide the best quality care to families affected by eating disorders during some of the most challenging points in their recovery.

The applicant will work alongside colleagues within the MDT to provide NICE concordant psychological interventions to young people and families with eating disorders and comorbid presentations.

As a member of the CAMHS ED team you would have access to specialist supervision in both family-based treatment. Supervision will be offered by a senior member of the team from the same discipline where possible.

Person specification

Working with CYP in Mental Health

Essential criteria

• 1

Desirable criteria

• 1

Eating Disorder Experience

Essential criteria

• 2

Working with MDT and Multi agencies

Essential criteria

• 2

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

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As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 403.4KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)