Clinical Specialist Eating Disorders Nurse

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Coventry is seeking an experienced clinical nurse specializing in eating disorders. Responsibilities include delivering expert care, leading clinical interventions, and providing education and consultancy to staff. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in this field and be dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes. This position offers excellent developmental opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Clinical space to see patients

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee discounts

Wellbeing support

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• Experience in leading clinical interventions for patients with eating disorders.
• Ability to provide professional leadership and consultancy.
• Skills in conducting audits, research and clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical nursing care to patients.
• Lead evidence-based interventions for eating disorders.
• Educate and develop staff in clinical expertise.

Skills

Expert clinical nursing care

Leadership in evidence-based interventions

Education and training

Audit and research contributions

Advanced clinical assessment

Education

Extensive experience in Eating Disorders

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical nursing care directly or indirectly with patients.
• Adopt a lead role in the provision of evidence-based interventions in eating disorders across the age range.
• Provide professional leadership and consultancy.
• Provide education, training and development in the field of expertise to other staff.
• Contribute to practice and service development and evaluation.
• Lead and contribute to audit and research.
• Work between Coventry and Warwickshire child and adolescent mental health eating disorders service and acute paediatric services to understand and meet the needs of children and young people with an eating disorder.
• Provide specialist care to children and young people with an eating disorder within a paediatric setting and work with professionals to monitor the physical risks and provide robust assessments and management plans.
• Manage the needs of multiple patients within a paediatric setting, aiming to support the paediatric team to stabilise and discharge patients in a timely manner.
• Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals delivering evidence-based interventions and to contribute directly to patients' assessment, treatment, review and discharge.
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply.
• Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice.
• Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group.
• Regularly undertake clinical supervision for specialist practice area.

Qualifications

Extensive experience of working in Eating Disorders is a must for the role.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
• A set Eating Disorders base with clinical space to see patients and be amongst colleagues.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
• Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more.
• Staff networks and support groups.

About the Trust

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service. The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website. For more information on how our Trust handles your data please view the 'Privacy Notice - Staff - V1.0 May 2018.pdf' at https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/privacy. NHS AfC: Band 8a. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) delivers a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities. These include: generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us, a set Eating Disorders base with clinical space to see patients and be amongst colleagues, excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more, salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more, discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes, wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more, staff networks and support groups. We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity, and respect.