Community Psychiatric Nurse (Adult Eating Disorders)

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Tooting; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health organization based in Tooting is recruiting a full-time Band 6 Specialist Nurse Practitioner. This role provides community support to clients with eating disorders, where no prior experience is needed as full training will be provided. Candidates should possess community and crisis management experience, alongside a full UK drivers’ license. Flexible working and career development are part of the benefits offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development

Various benefits

Qualifications

• Dynamic nurse looking for a challenge.
• Ability to work therapeutically with adults with eating disorders.
• Experience in assessing and conducting treatment for eating disorders.

Responsibilities

• Take clinical responsibility for a caseload of clients.
• Deliver evidence-based treatment and monitoring.
• Liaise with other services and co-ordinate transfers to community.

Skills

Community experience

Crisis management experience

Full UK drivers’ license

Education

NMC registration as a mental health nurse

Job description

A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.


We are excited to announce we are recruiting a full time Band 6 Specialist Nurse Practitioner/CPN for our new Enhanced Treatment team (ETT) which will provide support in the community and in patients homes to improve accessibility. If you are a dynamic nurse looking for a challenge with the opportunity to shape this new team, then please consider applying. No previous eating disorder experience is necessary and full support will be given to develop expertise in this area. Community experience and crisis management experience as well as a full UK drivers’ licence would be desirable.

You will take clinical responsibility for the clients allocated to you under the supervision of the Team Leader and Advance nurse practitioner. You will deliver and provide nursing evidence-based treatment, that of Clinical Management and Specialist Supportive Clinical Management (SSCM) which you will be trained in. The post holder will be expected to support clients from the Wandsworth, Richmond, Sutton, Merton and Kingston in their homes and the community. You will be expected to provide physical health monitoring where required and keep up to date with all the required mandatory and statutory training.

The role requires the post-holder to take supervised clinical responsibility for a caseload of clients suffering from eating disorders and to provide specialist clinical nursing care to clients under the supervision of the Team Leader and advance nurse practitioner. This will include conducting new patient assessments into the service, acting as named nurse for clients under CPA, being instrumental in involving clients in planning and evaluating their treatment and also where required providing physical health monitoring. The post holder will liaise with other services or professionals as necessary, co-ordinating the effective transfer of in-patients to the community team, and undertake group work as appropriate. The post holder will be expected to maintain excellent documentation/record keeping and correspondence, and work as part of the MDT team to achieve the highest possible care for the client group. Liaising with clients’ families and carers as appropriate and to carefully plan discharges and aftercare is also essential.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.

In addition to the fundamental knowledge and skills of nursing care, the post holder will be expected to develop their understanding of how to work therapeutically with adults with eating disorders. Specialist mental health nurse practitioners with current NMC registration (Band 6 Nurses) will hold a caseload of clients and work therapeutically on an individual and group basis, using a variety of skills and may also be required to eat therapeutically with clients as necessary.

All clinical staff will be expected to follow and work closely with trust policy and procedures, including lone working, safeguarding and risk assessment procedure and have sound knowledge of the Care Act. As part of the nursing process, staff will be expected to manage timely data quality, ensuring that KPI’s are updated, including the accurate and safe reporting of incidents, provision of reports and information to support the safety and wellbeing of the client (e.g., to local MAPPA & MARAC meetings). The job description will detail the other expectations of this role.


This advert closes on Wednesday 13 Aug 2025