Clinical Nurse Specialist

The Methodist Church in Britain; Essex; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will work within the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service at NELFT, covering Essex, Thurrock and South End. You will assess, treat, and monitor outcomes for young people, and provide clinical supervision to staff within a multi-disciplinary team.

Key responsibilities include conducting comprehensive assessments, delivering NICE-concordant therapies, and coordinating care with schools, social care, and families to support young people with eating disorders and related

Qualifications

• Registered mental health nurse or allied health professional in CBT/psychotherapy/occupational therapy.
• Experience with eating disorders in young people.
• Ability to supervise staff and provide clinical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Carry out in-depth assessments of children and young people and families.
• Deliver NICE-concordant interventions such as Family Therapy and CBT-E.
• Provide supervision and mentoring to team members and deliver leadership.

Skills

Mental health nurse

CBT therapist

Youth mental health

Job description

A Clinical Nurse Specialist post in the SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service, covering Essex, Thurrock and South End, at NELFT North East London Foundation Trust. The post holder assesses and treats young people, measures outcomes and gives clinical and line supervision to staff. The caseload combines eating disorders with neurodevelopmental and emotional difficulties, and involves schools, social care, hospitals and families. Applicants need professional registration, as a mental health nurse or an allied health professional such as a CBT therapist, psychotherapist or occupational therapist.

What the job involves

• Carry out in-depth assessment of children, young people and families, including comorbid mental health problems, and formulate strengths, difficulties and treatment plans
• Deliver NICE-concordant interventions such as Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa and CBT-E
• Adapt treatment for young people with neurodevelopmental conditions, learning difficulties and ADHD
• Complete complex risk formulation and collaborative safety planning
• Be responsible for assessment, treatment and outcome measurement
• Provide clinical and line supervision and mentoring to staff, and take on a delegated leadership role in the team
• Support delivery of psychological support and share clinical oversight across the service, working with the CAMHS Manager and clinical leads
• Support development and implementation of a range of NICE-concordant interventions
• Work across wider systems including education, social care, acute and psychiatric hospitals and family and carers
• Provide therapy with due regard to cultural, racial, religious difference and sexual orientation

What’s required

Qualifications

• Registered mental health nurse, or allied health professional in CBT, psychotherapy or occupational therapy

Registration & licences

• Current professional registration with an appropriate professional body

Experience

• Working with young people who present with eating disorders
• Adapting treatment for young people with neurodevelopmental issues
• Complex risk formulation and collaborative safety planning
• Partnership working across systems around a child or young person and their family
• Providing supervision or mentoring to staff

Skills & knowledge

• Formulating functioning and treatment plans where eating disorders and comorbid mental health problems coexist
• Delivering NICE-concordant therapy such as Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa and CBT-E

Nice to have

• Experience of supervising and managing others
• Keen interest in developing innovative strategies to support young people and their families

What’s offered

• Induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory and systems training and allocation of equipment
• Opportunity to meet the executive team and senior managers during induction
• Drop-in sessions on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes