Clinical Nurse Specialist Adult Community Eating Disorder Team

Job overview We are looking for a mental health nurse, with specialist Eating Disorder experience to cover a fixed term maternity leave vacancy, within the Adult Community Eating Disorder (ACED) team in Oxfordshire.
The team has been through significant transformation, including a skill mix review, significant recruitment and has developed clear internal pathways for the different eating disorder diagnosis and clarity of interventions delivered.
The team continues to work with colleagues from CAMHS, Adult Services, Older Adult and Primary care to develop and embed the ED pathway.
The community team is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team including Clinical Psychologists, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nursing staff, Dietitian, Social Worker, Assistant Psychologists, Community Support Workers, and team Administrators.
The service is committed to evidence-based and evidence generating practice and your role will include the opportunity to be part of service development, if you have skills and interests you wish to develop, we are open to discuss these as part of our ongoing personal development review programme We are passionate about developing the role of the nurse and continue to create nurse led pathways and treatment models.
The post holder will be ambitious and have a positive attitude and outstanding clinical skills.
Main duties of the job The role of clinical nurse specialist is to provide comprehensive care to individuals with eating disorders, as well as taking a leadership role within the multi-disciplinary team to embed nursing as a key element of the treatment pathway.
The post holder will receive, and be required to offer, supervision to other team members and act as Practice Assessor / Supervisor to nursing students and trainees.
Clinical nurse specialists play an important role in educating patients, families, and other healthcare providers on the complex nature of eating disorders.
They are trained to carry out specialist assessments and provide evidenced based treatments to help people overcome their disorder.
They work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to develop comprehensive treatment plans that address not only the physical symptoms but also the psychological and emotional aspects of the disorder.
We offer a range of evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and deliver these within the community.
There are opportunities for further training in the evidence-based treatments, including regular CBT-E (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) supervision and the service is developing the FREED initiative.
The service operates 5 days per week Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
Working for our organisation Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure you're your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"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• Competitive pension scheme• Lease car scheme• Cycle to work scheme• Employee Assistance Programme• Mental Health First Aiders• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team Detailed job description and main responsibilities Utilising knowledge and skills for interpretation and analysis of Service User needs.Hold Care co-ordination responsibility for an agreed caseload.Provision of appropriate interventions to support physical stabilisation of the patient, individual and group work and supervision as required.
Ability to use an integration of theoretical frameworks, and evidence-based practice, to formulate clinical practice.Using knowledge and skills of psychological therapies, for example CBTe, MANTRA and Solution Focused approaches and effectively monitoring progress of interventions throughout the course of treatment using appropriate routine outcome measures.To provide Specialist Assessments for Adults with Eating Disorders (AED).Develop a working network to support staff in consultation and joint working with other agencies, institutions and professionals to provide effective interventions for AED.To support the development of an effective interface between mental health services and across providers and all partnership agencies both statutory and non statutory.Develop effective care pathways for Adults with Eating Disorders.Provide training, consultation, and supervision to, Healthcare Workers and other professionals in community and hospital settings.Offer and access supervision and support to ensure good practice within the team.Undertake Clinical practice that demonstrates knowledge and promotes Patient rights and Safeguarding legislation.To have a clear agreement with the service manager about the amount of time/sessions that should be direct clinical work.To pro-actively provide psycho-education and advice to patients and carers.Assessing risk in collaboration with the patient and their carers where appropriate, other workers/professionals, alongside use of own professional judgment and team processes.
This involves exploring individual's risk of harm to themselves and/or others and may involve working with challenging, hostile and distressing behaviour.Taking responsibility for ensuring the communication of Recovery Care Plans, Outcome measures, risk management plans and other important information to relevant people, professionals and agencies as appropriate.
Encouraging individuals to take the lead in sharing information wherever possible.Participation in the organisation and operational management of the Adult Eating Disorder (AED) community Service as agreed with the Clinical Team Manager.Keeping accurate and contemporary clinical notes, reports and workload data.Implementing and promoting local and national legislation, incorporating good practice guidelines into clinical work.Managing and prioritising clinical time and case load effectively.Ensure effective communication with the Multi-Disciplinary Team to assist standards of clinical services.
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria RMN or equivalent Mental health qualification Desirable criteria Leadership training knowledge skills and ability Essential criteria To be able to function as part of multi disciplinary team and liaise with external agencies Experience Essential criteria Experience of working with Adults with Eating Disorders families and carers 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.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.Oxford Health is 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