Registered Mental Health Nurse (Hospital at Home Eating Disorders)

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse for the Hospital at Home (Eating Disorders) service. This full-time role involves ensuring safe, patient-centered care for young people and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The position offers excellent career progression, flexible working, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days

NHS Discount across various retailers

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with current registration.
• Experience in supervision and community healthcare.
• Intermediate IT skills required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver responsive, high-quality patient-focused care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Support nursing staff with best practices.

Skills

Problem solving

Supervisory skills

Clinical skills

Education

RMN registered

Evidence of ongoing development and education

Tools

Microsoft software packages

Job description

Registered Mental Health Nurse (Hospital at Home Eating Disorders)

Band 6

Main area Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Shifts: 08:00-16:00, 12:00-20:00, 10:00-18:00 Monday to Friday) Job ref 267-OC7230625

Site Slade House Town Headington Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa / pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 03/07/2025

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Are you enthusiastic? Passionate? Looking for an opportunity to lead?

Hospital at Home (Eating Disorders) is an exciting service developed in collaboration with the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home (ED) team supports young people with eating disorders who meet the threshold for inpatient care. In some cases, admission will be prevented and in others, young people will be stepped down to this model following a short inpatient admission. Hospital at Home (ED) maximises the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission rates, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.

This position offers hybrid working and the current work pattern offers days working at home, please note that this can be subject to change due to the service need. This role is based at Slade House, Oxford.

Main duties of the job

· To ensure that a responsive high quality, safe and patient focused service is delivered.
· To work effectively, and in partnership with, key members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to promote and facilitate effective patient care and discharge.
· To influence the development and implementation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to the service.
· To develop and sustain close and effective working relationships with partner services.
· To support registered and unregistered nursing staff in their professional development and in the promotion of best practice.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN registered
• Evidence of ongoing development and education
• Experience in supervision
• Intermediate IT skills with experience using Microsoft software packages
• Teaching experience

Experience

• Range of clinical experience
• Participation in service improvement projects
• Evidence of working with multi-disciplinary teams and other professionals
• Supervisory and management skills problem solving skills
• Experience leading service improvement projects
• Community experience

Personal qualities/other

• Ability to work well under pressure
• Flexible approach to work
• Awareness and acceptance of the rights and needs of service users and staff.
• Ability to attend in person meetings at least twice a year in Oxford or Swindon
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Sally Hill Job title Clinical Nurse Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07747611472 Additional information

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.

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