Eating Disorder Specialist Nurse

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Coventry is seeking an Eating Disorder Specialist Nurse to provide community-based treatment for clients with severe eating disorders. The role includes coordinating care, conducting assessments, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications, clinical experience with mental health, and strong communication skills. Opportunities for professional development and an extensive benefits program are provided.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in an inpatient or community mental health setting.
• Substantial experience working with people with eating disorders.
• Evidence of assessment and risk management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide community-based treatments to Eating Disorder clients.
• Support severely unwell patients in the outpatient setting.
• Manage a defined caseload of clients with severe eating disorders.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical assessment

Crisis management

Team collaboration

Advocacy

Education

Relevant Professional Qualification (e.g., RMN)

Current registration with HCPC/NMC

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Eating Disorder Specialist Nurse

The closing date is 25 December 2025

To provide community based treatments to Eating Disorder clients. The post holder will provide nursing input into the specialist eating disorders service, acting as care co‑ordinator and implementing home treatment support for a defined caseload of clients. The post holder will manage clients with severe eating disorders who are difficult to engage in treatment, have complex care needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will predominantly work with the outpatient nurses and consultants to provide monitoring and support to severely unwell patients. S/he may also contribute to the pathway for clients with severe and enduring eating disorders and act as a link worker for patients who are making the transition from CAMHS to adult services. The post holder will carry out specialist nursing assessments, plan and implement care, respond appropriately to crises and maintain associated records.

The post holder will have responsibility for the day to day delivery of the service to clients on their caseload and their families and carers via a range of evidence based interventions.

The post holder will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. The post holder will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations. The post holder will be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we 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
• 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 group

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

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.

Make and receive referrals as appropriate.

Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group.

Regularly undertake clinical supervision for specialist practice area.

Work within the Professional code of conduct.

Communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, such as service users, carers, other teams, third sector and voluntary organisations.

Communicate effectively across a wide variety of settings, using tact and diplomacy in response to situations that may be complex and sensitive and may have resulted from conflict. Providing advice and use their initiative and follow organisational procedures in routine and crisis situations.

Apply communication skills which take account of communication needs and differences, in order to plan, deliver and evaluate care.

Apply enhanced communication skills both oral and written to communicate information within records and reports. This may also include the need to respond to and offer reassurance to questions and concerns from a variety of groups, such as service users, carers and other staff/teams.

Comply with and implement local and Trust policies and procedures regarding appropriate communication.

Be required to lead client reviews within the multi-disciplinary team and act as an advocate for service users.

Be responsible for the assessment of a clients mental health and physical care needs. In collaboration with the client, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care to meet those needs.

Manage a defined case load, acting as care co‑ordinator, taking part in the implementation of CPA, providing a nursing assessment and carrying out nursing skills as appropriate to the field of eating disorders. To include ongoing assessment and monitoring of the clients diet, weight and eating related behaviours.

Contribute to the Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder pathway for clients with severe and enduring eating disorders through close monitoring of the clients physical health, conducting physical observations and weight monitoring. Arrange referrals for and advise clients on the required frequency of investigations such as bone density scans and monitor the clients compliance with nutritional supplements and other prescribed medication.

Calculate/interpret Body Mass Index and respond as appropriate; ensure tests to monitor the clients physical health parameters are carried out when required and respond to test results appropriately.

Provide support to the pathway for clients whose physical health needs are being monitored, by acting as care co‑ordinator to those clients who are not suitable for psychological therapy. To include working with clients who are severely underweight but are not being treated in an inpatient setting, working flexibly to accommodate working with clients immediately after discharge. Liaising with ward nursing staff to ensure there is continuity of care for patients being admitted to and discharged from the inpatient unit.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN,
• Current unrestricted registration with HCPC/NMC
• Evidence of continuing Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management

Experience

• Substantial experience in an inpatient or community mental health setting
• Developed specialist mental health knowledge gained within a similar environment over a considerable period of time
• Significant experience of working with people with eating disorders

Other

• Access to an independent means of transport

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