Clinical Specialist Eating Disorders Nurse

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is looking for a Clinical Specialist Eating Disorders Nurse to deliver expert care and professional leadership in Coventry. This role involves managing patient needs, leading interventions, and providing training to staff. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in eating disorders, hold relevant qualifications, and be registered with NMC. Competitive benefits including educational opportunities and wellbeing support are offered.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes for benefits

Discounts with retailers and restaurants

Wellbeing support services

Staff networks and support groups

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in working with eating disorders is essential.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development activities.
• Experience managing children and young people with high distress and risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert nursing care for children and young people with eating disorders.
• Lead evidence-based interventions among patients.
• Contribute to service development, education, and supervision.

Skills

Highly developed clinical skills with children and young people with eating disorders

Personal management skills including time management and planning

Operational judgments in managing professional differences

Supervisory skills for junior staff and learners

Education

Qualifications in mental health for children and young people

Registered with NMC

Post graduate education at Masters level with minimum 3 completed modules

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Clinical Specialist Eating Disorders Nurse

The closing date is 08 December 2025

• To provide expert clinical nursing care (directly or indirectly with patients.
• To adopt a lead role in the provision of evidence-based interventions in eating disorders across the age range.
• To provide professional leadership and consultancy.
• To provide education, training and development in the field of expertise to other staff.
• To contribute to practice and service development and evaluation.
• To lead and contribute to audit and research.

Main duties of the job

• To 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.
• To 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.
• To 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.

About us

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), deliver 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 much 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.

Job responsibilities

Please note the attached job spec is for a 8a nurse, however, extensive experience of working in Eating Disorders is a must for the role.

Qualifications

• Qualifications of relevance to mental health specifically children and young people.
• Registered with NMC
• Post graduate education at Masters level in advancing practice with a minimum of 3 completed modules

Knowledge and Skills

• Must possess and demonstrate highly developed clinical skills with evidence of working within Children and Young People with Eating Disorders
• Must be able to demonstrate highly developed personal management skills including time management, prioritising, planning
• Must be able to demonstrate operational judgements, managing conflicting views / reconcile inter and intra professional differences of opinion
• Must be able to contribute to supervisory process for junior staff and learners

Experience

• Must have extensive experience following registration.
• Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to facilitate ongoing competence
• Experience in the management of children and young people presenting with high levels of distress and risk

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust